Word.ws English Dictionary

specificness

specificness noun: specificity, the state of being specific.

Noun

specificness (usually uncountable, plural specificnesses)

  1. (usually) Specificity, the state of being specific
    • Test Copy for Specificness / Copy, if possible, should be specific.1920, James Melvin Lee, Business writing, page 429
    • Headlines — Specificness / The headline should be specific. Such generalities as Wisdom, The Truth, Character and Reputation, Easy Economies, or Cheapest and Best have little value for the average reader.1921, Harry Tipper with Harry Levi Hollingworth, George Burton Hotchkiss, and Frank Alvah Parsons, Advertising, its principles and practice, pages 282–3
    Synonyms:
    specificity

Examples of specificness in a sentence

  • To do a naturalistic play you have to respect the specificness of the period, place and social conditions1981 August 9, “Stage View; PETER BROOK RETURNS TO CHEKHOV'S VISION”, in New York Times:
  • Definiteness, specificness and genericness1984, Rodney D. Huddleston, Introduction to the grammar of English, page 248:
  • A second problem about taking stories as moral examples is their specificness.2002, John Goldingay, Approaches to Old Testament Interpretation, page 40:

Synonyms of specificness

Antonyms

Forms of specificness

pluralspecificnesses

Origin of specificness

From specific + -ness.

Questions about specificness

What does specificness mean?
Specificness means specificity, the state of being specific.
How do you use specificness in a sentence?
To do a naturalistic play you have to respect the specificness of the period, place and social conditions
What part of speech is specificness?
Specificness is a noun.
What is the plural of specificness?
The plural of specificness is specificnesses.

Words near specificness in the dictionary

  1. specifick
  2. specificker
  3. specifickers
  4. specificks
  5. specificly
  6. specificness
  7. specificnesses
  8. specifics
  9. specified
  10. specifiedness
  11. specifier

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: specificness (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “specificness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/specificness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.