单词 | retainability |
释义 | retainabilityn. The fact or quality of being retainable, esp. in the mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > [noun] > capability of retention retainableness1831 rememberability1839 retainability1855 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. i. 449 We have generally understood the retainability of an impression to mean the power of recalling it at any future time. 1868 A. Bain Mental Sci. (1870) i. i. 19 Discrimination, Agreement, and Retainability are to a certain extent proportional to the degree of the feeling, or the strength of the impression. 1906 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 16 311 Evolution denies retainability. It refuses to allow any rest whatsoever. 1972 Psychol. of Learning & Motivation 6 249 The number of associates a syllable or word arouses is recognized to be related to its learnability and retainability. 2003 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 8 June f3 I just picked out my new phone number... I took my time with the choice, mumbling the numbers, testing them for rhythm and retainability. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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