retention (n.)
- abnegation
- adhesiveness
- bullheadedness
- cohesiveness
- consistency
- contradiction
- declension
- declination
- denial
- deprivation
- disagreement
- disclaimer
- disobedience
- dissent
- gluiness
- glutinosity
- gumminess
- nay
- negation
- negative
- nix
- no
- nonacceptance
- noncompliance
- nonobservance
- obstinacy
- persistence
- persistency
- recantation
- refusal
- rejection
- repudiation
- retentiveness
- retentivity
- snugness
- stickiness
- stubbornness
- tackiness
- tenaciousness
- tenacity
- tightness
- toughness
- turndown
- unwillingness
- viscidity
- viscosity
- withholding
