specificity
nounUK, US /spɛsɪˈfɪsɪti/
Etymology From specific + -ity, perhaps modelled after French spécificité. First attested in 1829.
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Usually The state of being specific rather than general.
- Congress must set a clear standard: Police should prove with specificity what's on your phone before forcing it open, and only after the device's owner has consulted with a lawyer. Doing so would provide citizens a means to ensure police follow warrant requirements without sacrificing law enforcement's ability to pursue the crime they're investigating.2024 October 14, Patrick Eddington, James Craven, Police Want the Password to Your Phone:
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Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics Usually The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
- Coordinate term: sensitivity
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Medicine, Sciences Usually The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for, or a symptom or sign is specific to, a given condition.
- Synonyms
- specificness, individuality, particularity, peculiarity, propriety, singularity, specialty, specificity
- Antonyms
- nonspecificity, genericity
- Derived terms
34 terms
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- Coordinate terms
- sensitivity