retentiveness

RETENTIVENESS

by circumlocution with the verbs in To RETAIN.

retentiveness: best expr. by memoria, Quint. 11, 2 (q. v.): in Plin. Ep. 2, 2, ad med. the idea is expr. thus: "incredibilis memoria: ne verbo quidem labitur; ad tantam ἕξιν (habit, as the result of practice, r.) studio et exercitatione pervenit." In Lucr. 3, 673, rĕtĭnentia = remembrance or r.