specificity
nounEtymology
From specific + -ity, perhaps modelled after French spécificité. First attested in 1829.
- derived from speciēs
- derived from specificus
- derived from specifique
Definitions
The state of being specific rather than general.
The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing
The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:
- Coordinate term: sensitivity
The neighborhood
- synonymspecificness
- synonymindividuality
- synonymparticularity
- synonympeculiarity
- synonympropriety
- synonymsingularity
- synonymspecialty
- synonymspecificity
- antonymnonspecificity
- antonymgenericity
Derived
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
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for specificity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA