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specificity

[spes-uh-fis-i-tee]

noun

  1. the quality or state of being specific.

  2. Biochemistry, Pharmacology.the selective attachment or influence of one substance on another, as an antibiotic and its target organism or an antibody and its specific antigen.



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Other Word Forms

  • nonspecificity noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of specificity1

First recorded in 1875–80; specific + -ity
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We worked a lot through the specificity of what words he uses and what he actually says to explain and give hints for me as an actor.

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For Chbosky, whose past films include “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and “Wonder,” the heart of the film is less about spectacle and more about specificity.

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It’s a master class in the specificity of acting for the stage.

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To her, the way you “stand out as any performer is straddling that line of allowing the collective experience to inhabit you while bringing your voice forward enough to bring that own specificity,” Rao said.

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Some confusion could have been avoided, it said, if the emergency management staffer who wrote the alert had described the area with more geographic specificity and included timestamps.

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