Noun
- 1. memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity, faculty, mental faculty, module
- usage: the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger"
- 2. retentiveness, retentivity, acquisitiveness
- usage: the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired
- 3. retentiveness, retentivity, retention, impermeability, impermeableness
- usage: the power of retaining liquid; "moisture retentivity of soil"
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