Significados de retentiveness em inglês

On the clay loam the soil does this by its superior retentiveness.

Stationery is associated with dull-witted anal retentiveness, being ancillary to more important tasks.

She was depending on mere retentiveness to hold dates in mind.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.

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

These are feats seldom replicated, let alone attempted, outside the confines of Crewe: Bentley-grade anal retentiveness.

The retentiveness of her memory was very remarkable.

An evidence of the retentiveness of Mozart's memory.

Fewer recognise the preceding clause which states that progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.

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

Change in these conditions, then, will enable a person to make use of all the native retentiveness his nervous system has.

With a keen, bright intelligence, and remarkable retentiveness of memory, she mastered her studies with surprising quickness, and distanced all her competitors.

Referring to the climate the author says: In West Africa the body loses its strength, the memory its retentiveness, and the will its energy.

His mastery over figures in its firmness of grasp, its lightning-like rapidity, its retentiveness, is almost as great as that of a professional calculator.

As we have several times emphasized, the decisive intellectual differences among human beings are not greatly dependent upon mere sense discrimination or native retentiveness.

As regarded novelties (among which cabs and omnibuses were to be reckoned), his mind appeared to have lost its proper gripe and retentiveness.