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retention
Overview of noun retention
The noun retention has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (8) retention, keeping, holding -- (the act of retaining something)
2. (1) memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity -- (the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger")
3. retentiveness, retentivity, retention -- (the power of retaining liquid; "moisture retentivity of soil")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun retention
3 senses of retention
Sense 1
retention, keeping, holding
=> possession, ownership
=> control
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity
=> faculty, mental faculty, module
=> ability, power
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
retentiveness, retentivity, retention
=> impermeability, impermeableness
=> solidity, solidness
=> consistency, consistence, body
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun retention
3 senses of retention
Sense 1
retention, keeping, holding
=> withholding
=> storage
Sense 2
memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity
=> remembrance, recollection, anamnesis
Sense 3
retentiveness, retentivity, retention
=> urinary retention
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun retention
3 senses of retention
Sense 1
retention, keeping, holding
=> possession, ownership
Sense 2
memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity
=> faculty, mental faculty, module
Sense 3
retentiveness, retentivity, retention
=> impermeability, impermeableness
Antonyms of noun retention
Member Holonyms of noun retention
Substance Holonyms of noun retention
Part Holonyms of noun retention
Member Meronyms of noun retention
Substance Meronyms of noun retention
Part Meronyms of noun retention
Meronyms of noun retention
Holonyms of noun retention
Attributes of noun retention
Derived Forms of noun retention
2 of 3 senses of retention
Sense 1
retention, keeping, holding
RELATED TO>(verb) retain#3
=> retain, hold, keep back, hold back
Sense 2
memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity
RELATED TO>(verb) retain#4
=> retain
Domain of noun retention
Domain Terms of noun retention
Familiarity of noun retention
retention used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun retention
3 senses of retention
Sense 1
retention, keeping, holding
> possession, ownership
=> actual possession
=> constructive possession
=> criminal possession
=> retention, keeping, holding
Sense 2
memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity
> faculty, mental faculty, module
=> attention
=> language, speech
=> memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity
=> reason, understanding, intellect
=> sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
=> volition, will
Sense 3
retentiveness, retentivity, retention
> impermeability, impermeableness
=> retentiveness, retentivity, retention
=> nonabsorbency
Meronyms of noun retention
3 senses of retention
Holonyms of noun retention
Grep of noun retention
retention
urinary retention
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