retentiveness

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But it's time we retire this notion of Wooden as basketball's wise old man and see his legacy for what it is: a triumph of rigidity, bureaucracy, paternalism, and anal retentiveness.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2010

The power to recall a fact or an event depends not only upon this quality of retentiveness, but also upon the number of other facts or events connected with it.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton

Like many other people of powerful brains, she united strong and clear general retentiveness with a weak and untrustworthy verbal memory.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot by Morley, John

Richard as the eldest cherished her memory with a touching retentiveness.

From The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India by Hunter, William Wilson

His mastery over figures in its firmness of grasp, its lightning-like rapidity, its retentiveness, is almost as great as that of a professional calculator.

From Sketches in the House (1893) by O'Conner, T. P.