retentiveness

English

Etymology

retentive +‎ -ness

Noun

retentiveness (uncountable)

1. 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.

Related terms

• anal-retentiveness

 

Translations

state of being retentive

• Irish: coinneálacht f