specificity
UK/spɛsɪˈfɪsɪti/
specificity noun: the state of being specific rather than general.
Noun
specificity (usually uncountable, plural specificities)
- The state of being specific rather than general.
- Congress must set a clear standard: Police should prove with specificity what's on your phone before forcing it open, and only after the device's owner has consulted with a lawyer. Doing so would provide citizens a means to ensure police follow warrant requirements without sacrificing law...2024 October 14, Patrick Eddington, James Craven, Police Want the Password to Your Phone
- The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
- Coordinate term: sensitivity
- The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for, or a symptom or sign is specific to, a given condition.
specificity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
specificity in Hindi
- विशिष्टता
specificity in Tamil
- குறிப்புத்தன்மை, தனிப்பயன் உடைமை, தனியினத்துவம், தனிக்குறிப்புத் தன்மை, தனித் திறம், தனித்தன்மை
specificity in Marathi
- विशिष्टता
specificity in Bengali
- সুনির্দিষ্টতা, নির্দিষ্টতা
More languagesFewer languages
- specificity in Gujarati
- ચોક્કસતા
- specificity in Nepali
- विशिष्टता
- specificity in Tagalog
- katiyakan
- specificity in Indonesian
- spesifisitas
Examples of specificity in a sentence
- Higher layers flesh out rasm; they provide body, specificity, and personality.
- These epochal shifts contributed to lend specificity to the substantive rationality of the state — raison d'etat.
- Kinomics can be used to understand both the mechanism of action and the specificity of potential drugs.
Synonyms of specificity
Antonyms
Forms of specificity
| plural | specificities |
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Origin of specificity
From specific + -ity, perhaps modelled after French spécificité. First attested in 1829.
Words formed from specificity
- allospecificity
- aspecificity
- bispecificity
- cardiospecificity
- chemospecificity
- conspecificity
- diastereospecificity
- enantiospecificity
- heterospecificity
- heterosubspecificity
- homospecificity
- hyperspecificity
- immunospecificity
- interspecificity
- intraspecificity
- isospecificity
- monospecificity
- multispecificity
- neospecificity
- neurospecificity
- nonspecificity
- organospecificity
- overspecificity
- paraspecificity
- phosphospecificity
- polyspecificity
- regiospecificity
- serospecificity
- stereospecificity
- subspecificity
- transspecificity
- ultraspecificity
- unspecificity
- xenospecificity
Questions about specificity
- What does specificity mean?
- Specificity means the state of being specific rather than general.
- What is specificity in Hindi?
- Specificity in Hindi is विशिष्टता. See Specificity meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is specificity?
- Specificity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce specificity?
- Specificity is pronounced /spɛsɪˈfɪsɪti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of specificity?
- The plural of specificity is specificities.
Words near specificity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: specificity (page history and authors); specificity (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); specificity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); specificity (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); specificity (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); specificity (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); specificity (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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