SPECIFICITY

specificity

(noun) the quality of being specific rather than general; “add a desirable note of specificity to the discussion”; “the specificity of the symptoms of the disease”

specificity

(noun) the quality of being specific to a particular organism; “host specificity of a parasite”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

specificity (plural specificities)

The state of being specific rather than general.

The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus

(statistics) The probability, in a binary test, of a true negative being correctly identified.

(medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for, or a symptom or sign is specific to, a given condition.

Synonyms

• specificness (much less common)

Antonyms

• nonspecificity

• genericity

Coordinate terms

• (statistics, binary probability): sensitivity

Source: Wiktionary

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