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SPECIFICITY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does specificity mean?

• SPECIFICITY (noun)
The noun SPECIFICITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being specific rather than general
2. the quality of being specific to a particular organism

Familiarity information: SPECIFICITY used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SPECIFICITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of being specific rather than general

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context examples:

add a desirable note of specificity to the discussion / the specificity of the symptoms of the disease

Hypernyms ("specificity" is a kind of...):

particularity; specialness (the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The quality of being specific to a particular organism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

host specificity of a parasite

Hypernyms ("specificity" is a kind of...):

particularity; specialness (the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance)

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