retentiveness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
retentiveness (uncountable)
- the state of being retentive
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 131:
- The Neolithic of 8000 to 6000 B.C. is in the sign of Cancer, a feminine sign associated with domesticity, retentiveness, and sentiment.
Translations[edit]
state of being retentive
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