as in accuracy
careful thoroughness of detail
the specificity of your description of your medical condition was a bit more than I needed
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Recent Examples of specificity
The specificity of the test, which is the share of participants who did not have colon cancer and tested negative for it, was 90.4%.
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Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025
Aside from the specificity, caveats, and elaboration unique to human conversations, many Redditors already format their responses in digestible lists.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025
Potential customers are drawn to your relevance and the specificity of your knowledge.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
The rest of the world might not know or care, but the specificity makes the daylong misadventure authentic.
—Fred Topel, Deadline, 17 Jan. 2025
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Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025
Aside from the specificity, caveats, and elaboration unique to human conversations, many Redditors already format their responses in digestible lists.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025
Potential customers are drawn to your relevance and the specificity of your knowledge.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
The rest of the world might not know or care, but the specificity makes the daylong misadventure authentic.
—Fred Topel, Deadline, 17 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for specificity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for specificity
Noun
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Information accuracy can depend on how recently the data was updated.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
8 Feb. 2025
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The system, the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast, or ADS-B, would’ve enabled air traffic control to track the aircraft with much greater accuracy.—
Ross O'Keefe,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This generates affordable precision mass, deters adversaries, and protects our democracies.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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The Power of Phage At the heart of Parallel Health’s innovation is its unique approach to phage therapy, a treatment method that uses microbes called bacteriophages to combat bacterial infections: precision antibiotics, but safe and natural.—
WWD,
WWD,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Longer term, a constitutional amendment seems appropriate — perhaps a supplement to Article II, Section 2, stipulating that a pardon, to be valid, must identify the crime with reasonable particularity.—
Robert A. Levy,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The first Spidey film of the MCU era iterates off the problems and solutions of past films, adding back all the comedy that the Amazing films lost and refocusing Peter's adventures with outer-borough particularity.—
Darren Franich,
EW.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Specificity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/specificity. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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