retentiveness

But the most remarkable thing through life was his memory, and its wonderful combination of retentiveness and readiness.

A stiff clayey soil offers a good example of the disadvantage of over-retentiveness.

This gives what may be called the quality of native retentiveness to the individual.

Not only was he possessed of a bright, quick mind, but wonderful retentiveness of memory.

In John Leyden an unconquerable perseverance was united to remarkable native genius, and a memory of singular retentiveness.