Retentiveness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETENTIVENESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being retentive
• The quality of being retentive.
• the power of retaining and recalling past experience
• the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired
• the power of retaining liquid
ADJECTIVE:
• serving to keep something in place.
• (of a substance) able to absorb and hold moisture
• (of a person's memory) effective in retaining facts and impressions
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having the power, property, or capacity of retaining; retaining knowledge easily

Words related to RETENTIVENESS

retentive12 retentivenesses18

Words that contain RETENTIVENESS

irretentiveness18 retentivenesses18

How to use RETENTIVENESS in a sentence

• His retentiveness of memory, his accumulated weight of interested prejudice or romantic association have overlaid his other faculties.
• He has no reserve of discretion, no retentiveness of mind or check upon himself.
• Change in these conditions, then, will enable a person to make use of all the native retentiveness his nervous system has.
• 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.
• The expansion of the mind in point of retentiveness and wealth of images is as much an advance in knowledge as is its development in point of organisation.
• Retentiveness, we must repeat, is the condition of progress.

Similar words containing TENTIVENES without suffix s and without prefix re

attentiveness16 attentivenesses18 inattentiveness18 irretentiveness18 retentivenesses18 inattentivenesses20

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