Synonyms for specificity
ˌspɛs əˈfɪs ɪ tispeci·fici·ty

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1. specificitynoun

   Synonyms:
   specificness

2. specificitynoun

   The state of being specific rather than general.

   Synonyms:
   specificness

3. specificitynoun

   The probability, in a binary test, of a true negative being correctly identified.

   Synonyms:
   specificness

4. specificitynoun

   The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for a given condition.

   Synonyms:
   specificness

Princeton's WordNet

1. specificitynoun

   the quality of being specific rather than general

   "add a desirable note of specificity to the discussion"; "the specificity of the symptoms of the disease"

2. specificitynoun

   the quality of being specific to a particular organism

   "host specificity of a parasite"

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1. • Particularity

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1. List of paraphrases for "specificity":

   uniqueness, distinctiveness, particularity, individuality, peculiarity, specific, singularity, concreteness, precision

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. specificity

   Synonyms:
   True-negative rate

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1. Ryszard Czarnecki:

   Poland has its specificity and the Church has its special merits here.

2. Beth Tellman:

   It's the specificity at which they had the confidence in pointing out who is going to be affected, as well as the difference in the causes of development and population growth, because of the improvements they've made to their models, that's important, that level of specificity helps us understand what to do in terms of investments and policies.

3. Eric Trump:

   Theres no specificity to anything, i mean, how about talking about, you know, after the Democrats signed NAFTA, that we lost 70,000 factories in this country, and our jobs all went overseas? ERIC TRUMP: INCREDIBLY RADICAL DEMS PUSHING FOR CRAZY POLICIES THAT WOULD DESTROY US.

4. Dianne Feinstein:

   What worries me is you have been very much able to avoid any specificity, like no one I have ever seen before, and maybe that’s a virtue, I don’t know.

5. Carol Edwards:

   Once we stepped into the schools, we saw a drop in their specificity and sensitivity due to the change.