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Meaning of "irretentiveness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF IRRETENTIVENESS

ˌɪrɪˈtentɪvnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IRRETENTIVENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Irretentiveness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES IRRETENTIVENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of irretentiveness in the English dictionary

The definition of irretentiveness in the dictionary is the quality or state of not having the capacity to retain or remember.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IRRETENTIVENESS

activeness · adaptiveness · alimentiveness · assentiveness · conservativeness · cooperativeness · costiveness · creativeness · defectiveness · inattentiveness · informativeness · innovativeness · inoperativeness · intuitiveness · positiveness · presentiveness · preventiveness · restrictiveness · stick-to-itiveness · substantiveness

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IRRETENTIVENESS

irresponsibleness · irresponsibly · irresponsive · irresponsively · irresponsiveness · irrestrainable · irresuscitable · irresuscitably · irretention · irretentive · irretrievability · irretrievable · irretrievableness · irretrievably · irreverence · irreverent · irreverential · irreverently · irreversibility · irreversible

WORDS THAT END LIKE IRRETENTIVENESS

adhesiveness · appropriateness · attentiveness · attractiveness · awareness · awesomeness · brand awareness · business · closeness · competitiveness · completeness · cost-effectiveness · cuteness · effectiveness · hoarseness · likeness · oneness · responsiveness · self-awareness · soreness · uniqueness

Synonyms and antonyms of irretentiveness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «irretentiveness» into 25 languages

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about irretentiveness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IRRETENTIVENESS»

Discover the use of irretentiveness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to irretentiveness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Domestic Annals of Scotland: 1689-1748
All the rest of the noblemen and gentlemen taken at Preston either made their escape from Newgate, which on this occasion manifested a peculiar irretentiveness, or were pardoned. About twenty inferior persons were executed. There were ...
‎1861
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Domestic Annals of Scotland
All the rest of the noblemen and gentlemen taken at Preston either made their escape from Ncwgate, which on this occasion manifested a peculiar irretentiveness, or were pardoned. About twenty inferior persons were executed. There were ...
Robert Chambers, 1861
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A Selection from the Writings of Viscount Strangford on ...
We are much inclined to dwell at length on this extraordinary man; on his high moral courage and resolution in great things, combined with incredible physical timidity in small things; on his humourous candour and irretentiveness of mind, ...
Smythe Percy Ellen Frederick William Strangford, 1869
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Domestic Annals of Scotland
All the rest of the noblemen and gentlemen taken at Preston either made their escape from Newgate, which on this occasion manifested a. peculiar irretentiveness, or were pardoned. About twenty inferior persons were executed. There were ...
‎1861
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Discourses on the Parable of the Sower
AH due allowance is to be made for the irretentiveness of some memories, and the peculiar unfavourableness of some person's situation and circumstances to the duty I am recommending. But it is a duty most reasonable in itself, earnestly ...
Samuel Stennett, 1823
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The works ...: now first collected into a body: with some ...
All due allowance is to be made for the irretentiveness of some memories, and the peculiar unfavourableness of some person's situation and circumstances, to the duty I am recommending. But it is a duty most reasonable in itself, earnestly ...
Samuel Stennett, 1824
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An Alphabetical List of English Words Occurring in the ...
B Irretentiveness, Sat Rev Irretrievable, adj. B Imtrievably, adv. B Irreverent, adj. B Irreverently. adv. B Ifrevoeable, ad'. Traherne Iflltable, adj. B Irljllflncy, sb. Carl 1'T} l»8ie,v. a. B Irritation, sb. B Imlptioii, sb. B Islam. sb. Irving Islamlsm, sb.
‎1861
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The Works of Samuel Stennett
All due allowance is to be made for the irretentiveness of some memories, and the peculiar unfavourableness of some person's situation and circumstances, to the duty I am recommending. But it is a duty most reasonable in itself, earnestly ...
Samuel Stennett, William Jones, 1824
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The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Among my books
Montaigne, indeed, reports of himself with the impartiality of a naturalist, and Boswell, in his letters to Temple, shows a maudlin irretentiveness ; but is not old Samuel Pepys, after all, the only man who spoke to himself of himself with perfect  ...
James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton, 1904
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The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry: ...
Montaigne, indeed, reports of himself with the impartiality of a naturalist, and Boswell, in his letters to Temple, shows a maudlin irretentiveness ; but is not old Samuel Pepys, after all, the only man who spoke to himself of himself with perfect  ...
James Russell Lowell, 1898
REFERENCE
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