retentiveness

The biggest was White’s retentiveness, or lack thereof.

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness,” Santayana wrote.

In an era when chefs were still known for their tattoos and salty talk, Trotter accepted the accusation of anal retentiveness as a compliment.

On another generational front on July 4 at Citi Field, Kevin Hogan, 54, of Richmond, Va., said keeping score by hand “helps fuel my anal retentiveness.”

As he was denied the use of books, even of the treatises which were the source of the charges, these answers manifest a wonderful retentiveness of memory and quickness and clearness of intellect.