retention

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=ten=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

retention, n. [L. retentio: cf. F. rétention. See Retain.].

•  The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.  [1913 Webster]
•  The power of retaining; retentiveness.  [1913 Webster]

  "No woman's heart
  So big, to hold so much; they lack retention."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which contains something, as a tablet; a Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Place of custody or confinement.  [1913 Webster]
•  The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien.  Erskine. Craig.  [1913 Webster]

Retention cyst (Med.), a cyst produced by obstruction of a duct leading from a secreting organ and the consequent retention of the natural secretions.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

retention, n.
1 a the act or an instance of retaining; the state of being retained. b the ability to retain things experienced or learned; memory.
2 Med. the failure to evacuate urine or another secretion.

Etymology

ME f. OF retention or L retentio (as RETAIN)

THESAURUS

retention

abnegation, adhesiveness, bullheadedness, camera-eye, cohesiveness, consistency, contradiction, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disobedience, dissent, eidetic memory, gluiness, glutinosity, gumminess, holding back, memory span, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, obstinacy, persistence, persistency, photographic memory, recantation, refusal, rejection, repudiation, retentive memory, retentiveness, retentivity, snugness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, stubbornness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, thumbs-down, tightness, total memory, total recall, toughness, turndown, unwillingness, viscidity, viscosity, withholding

ROGET THESAURUS

retention

Possession

N possession, seizin, seisin, ownership, occupancy, hold, holding, tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency, villenage, villeinage, socage, chivalry, knight service, exclusive possession, impropriation, monopoly, retention, prepossession, preoccupancy, nine points of the law, corner, usucaption, future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee, seigniority, primogeniture, ultimogeniture, futures contract, warrant, put, call, option, right of first refusal, bird in hand, uti possidetis, chose in possession, possessing, worth, possessed of, seized of, master of, in possession of, usucapient, endowed with, blest with, instinct with, fraught with, laden with, charged with, possessed, on hand, by one, in hand, in store, in stock, in one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession, at one's command, at one's disposal, one's own, unsold, unshared, entbehre gern was du nicht hast, meum et tuum, tuum est.

Retention

N retention, retaining, keep, detention, custody, tenacity, firm hold, grasp, gripe, grip, iron grip, fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum, bond, clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice, paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf, neif, bird in hand, captive, retaining, retentive, tenacious, unforfeited, undeprived, undisposed, uncommunicated, incommunicable, inalienable, in mortmain, in strict settlement, uti possidetis.

Memory

N memory, remembrance, retention, retentiveness, tenacity, veteris vestigia flammae, tablets of the memory, readiness, reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration, recurrence, flashback, retrospect, retrospection, afterthought, post script, PS, suggestion, prompting, hint, reminder, remembrancer, flapper, memorial, commemoration, note, memo, memorandum, things to be remembered, token of remembrance, memento, souvenir, keepsake, relic, memorabilia, art of memory, artificial memory, memoria technica, mnemonics, mnemotechnics, phrenotypics, Mnemosyne, prompt-book, crib sheet, cheat sheet, retentive memory, tenacious memory, photographic memory, green memory, trustworthy memory, capacious memory, faithful memory, correct memory, exact memory, ready memory, prompt memory, accurate recollection, perfect memory, total recall, celebrity, fame, renown, reputation, remembering, remembered, mindful, reminiscential, retained in the memory, pent up in one's memory, fresh, green, green in remembrance, unforgotten, present to the mind, within one's memory, indelible, uppermost in one's thoughts, memorable, by heart, by rote, without book, memoriter, in memory of, in memoriam, memoria in aeterna, suggestive, manet alta mente repostum, forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit, absens haeres non erit, beatae memoriae, briefly thyself remember, mendacem memorem esse oportet, memory the warder of the brain, parsque est meminisse doloris, to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die, vox audita peril littera scripta manet, out of sight, out of mind.