Last comes a stage when retentiveness is exhausted and all that happens is at once forgotten; a vain, because unpractical, repetition of the past takes the place of plasticity and fertile readaptation.
The expansion of the mind in point of retentiveness and wealth of images is as much an advance in knowledge as is its development in point of organisation.
The characteristics of his mind are retentiveness and comprehension, with facility of production: but he is not equally remarkable for originality of view, or warmth of feeling, or liveliness of fancy.
His retentiveness of memory, his accumulated weight of interested prejudice or romantic association have overlaid his other faculties.
He has no reserve of discretion, no retentiveness of mind or check upon himself.
Ewing has also examined the effects produced by longitudinal compression upon the susceptibility and retentivenessof nickel, and found, as was to be expected, that both were greatly increased by pressure.
A metal which has great retentiveness may at the same time have small coercive force, and it is the latter quality which is of chief importance in permanent magnets.
Intricately or profoundly woven, they are held: disconnected, they tend to drop out just in proportion as the native brain retentiveness is poor.
Change in these conditions, then, will enable a person to make use of all the native retentiveness his nervous system has.
Little children and old people are more dependent upon mere retentiveness than upon either of the others, the former because of lack of experience and lack of habits of thought, the latter because of the loss of both of these factors.
He had acquired a better method of noting and recording his experiences, but his physiological retentiveness was probably not a bit improved.
She was depending on mere retentiveness to hold dates in mind.
It is not possible to state a specific quantity of water for any crop, because the amount depends to such a large extent upon the retentiveness of the soil, the rate of evaporation and the kind of cultivation.
There is the greatest possible diversity among men, as to the retentiveness of the memory, and as to the extent and power of the reasoning faculties.
The truth is, all memory is retentive, or, more properly, retentiveness is itself memory.
Nor is it altogether proper to speak of retentiveness as a quality of memory--a quality which may pertain to it in a greater or less degree in different cases.
Receptivity and retentiveness of impression is not only a property of brain, but of all solid matter without exception.
