Usually means: Holding onto things or memories.
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  1. retentively: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. retentively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retentively: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. Retentively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. retentively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. retentively: Rhymezone
  11. Retentively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. retentively: Free Dictionary
  13. retentively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Retentively: Dictionary/thesaurus

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▸ adverb:  In a retentive manner.

Similar:
reticently, retractively, reticularly, restrictively, reclusively, reticulately, attentively, reservedly, retractably, repressedly, more...

Opposite:
forgetfully, negligently, carelessly

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Similar:
reticently, retractively, reticularly, restrictively, reclusively, reticulately, attentively, reservedly, retractably, repressedly, more...

Opposite:
forgetfully, negligently, carelessly



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