“While discussing different memory-enhancing techniques, the psychologist emphasized the importance of improving retentivity to optimize one's ability to retain and recall information effectively.”
“Note that residual magnetism and retentivity are the same when the material has been magnetized to the saturation point.”
“Hardened steel has a high degree of retentivity, while soft iron retains but little magnetism.”
retainership
The practice of charging a retainer fee, or a client relationship based on such a fee.
“In 2003, S. Sridhar had a retainership contract with Arthur J. Gallaher Asia Pte Ltd to assist for their entry strategy to India and once the venture is established to run the India operation.”
“They had settled upon the Prince of India in a kind of retainership.”
retaining
The act by which something or someone is retained; a retention.
“The statement occurs in a discussion of the idea of progress in which Santayana contends that progress is more about retentiveness than about change.”
“The only answer is to beef up the moisture retentiveness of the soil as much as possible with leaf mould, garden compost or whatever you have available, and then choose your plants from a limited range.”
“As regarded novelties, his mind appeared to have lost its proper gripe and retentiveness.”
retentive
(obsolete) That which retains or confines; a restraint.
“But it said the combination of being small,having the lowest unit costs, good retent ion of existing customers would help gross lending figures.”
“The retent, when known, stands before us as if reflected and inverted in a mirror, the nearest events in the past being this way the nearest as actually remembered.”