Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property of being retentive; specifically, in psychology, the capacity for retaining mental presentations: distinguished from
memory , which implies certain relations existing among the presentations thus recorded. Seememory .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being retentive.
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- noun the state of being
retentive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the power of retaining and recalling past experience
- noun the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired
- noun the power of retaining liquid
Etymologies
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Examples
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… now go wipe, your anal retentiveness is showing …
Think Progress » Fox News: ‘Al Gore’s Global Warming Movie: Could It Destroy Our Economy?’ 2006
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A better aphorism from him, which should be pinned to the wall of every management consultant's office, was "progress, far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness".
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Sahre has catalogued and organized everything about this modest outcropping of homes with an admirable anal retentiveness.
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Sahre has catalogued and organized everything about this modest outcropping of homes with an admirable anal retentiveness.
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Matthew Yglesias » Why Don’t You Guys Ever Report the Good News? 2007
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Also, is it the height of anal retentiveness to point out that Chaplin's first film appearance wasn't until 1914? kevtron
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Without the aid of a swingometer, and feeling a bit low on powers of anal retentiveness today, I would guess that those sorts of swings would wipe out most, if not all, of Labour's Commons majority.
Won`t Get Fooled Again Newmania 2007
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To read Cook's Illustrated is to see anal retentiveness made into quivering flesh.
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While I think this is good in the long run (T's anal-retentiveness is generally an admirable trait, but it does mean that it takes us ages to sign any contract for anything), it means that we won't make an offer for a few weeks, at least.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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There was also a lot of anal-retentiveness on display.
A Conundrum « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006
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