retentionaladj.
/rᵻˈtɛnʃn̩(ə)l/, /rᵻˈtɛnʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /rəˈtɛn(t)ʃ(ə)nəl/, /riˈtɛn(t)ʃ(ə)nəl/ 1. Of or relating to retention (in various senses).
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1902 D. R. Brower & H. M. Bannister Pract. Man. Insanity iv. 60 A very profound degree of apparent dementia is not inconsistent with an almost perfect retentional recollection of events.
1922 Trans. Section on Urol. 1922 (Amer. Med. Assoc.) 127 The practical attack on this phase consists only in the routine study of retentional and excretory phenomena.
1975 Child Devel. 46 215/2 Retentional differences associated with the type of material presented.
2006 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 31 Dec. k3 Contour your land. Let it slope into natural retentional areas so rainwater doesn't go down storm drains.
2. Philosophy. Of or relating to phenomenological retention (retention n. 2b). Cf. protentional adj. at protention n. Derivatives.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [adjective] > relating to phenomenology and its elements
phenomenal1840
phenomenical1858
phenomenological1858
intentional1902
retentional1931
1931 W. R. B. Gibson tr. E. Husserl Ideas iii. ii. 237 Continuous changes in an opposite direction: ‘after’ corresponding to ‘before’, a protentional continuum corresponding to the retentional.
1966 A. Gurwitsch Stud. Phenomenol. & Psychol. xii. 305 The modifications arise from the ‘actual now’ and are conveyed to the retentional phases.
1997 Ethnomusicology 41 470 Experience does not merely have a protentional/retentional structure; the structure of the living present is organized and can be managed along a number of parameters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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