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irretentive, a.|ɪrɪˈtɛntɪv|
[ir-2.]
Not retentive; lacking the power of retention.
1749Skelton Deism Revealed iv. (T.), His imagination irregular and wild, his memory weak and irretentive. 1879A. W. Ward Chaucer iii. 147 A manliness of tone, the direct opposite of the irretentive querulousness found in so great a number of poets. 1897F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) LXIV. 163/1 A narrow range of reading, or an irretentive memory.
Hence irreˈtentiveness, the quality of being irretentive; want of the power of retention.
1849Chambers' Hist. Scot. ix. 114 All the rest..made their escape from Newgate, which on this occasion manifested a peculiar irretentiveness. 1867Lowell Rousseau Pr. Wks. 1890 II. 261 Montaigne..reports of himself with the impartiality of a naturalist, and Boswell, in his letters to Temple, shows a maudlin irretentiveness. |