1. The power of retaining and recalling past experience
   - memory, retention, retentiveness 
2. The property of retaining possessions that have been acquired
   - retentiveness 
3. The power of retaining liquid
   "moisture retentivity of soil"
   - retentiveness, retention

Derived forms: retentivities

See also: retentive

Type of: acquisitiveness, faculty, impermeability, impermeableness, mental faculty, module

Encyclopedia: Retentivity

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• freethinker
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• Freetown
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• freeway
• freewheel
• freewheeler
• freewheeling
• freewill
• freewoman
• freezable
• freeze
• freeze down
• freeze off
• freeze out
• freeze-dried