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
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 T. P. O'Conner
This gives what may be called the quality of native retentiveness to the individual.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
Richard as the eldest cherished her memory with a touching retentiveness.
From The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India by William Wilson Hunter
She had become a legend and no one knew her exact age, she was creepin’ close to a hundred, and her memory which carried her back to the slave days was marvellous in its retentiveness.
From The Ghost Girl by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
