specificity
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7.0
- noun
- /spɪˈsɪfɪsɪti/
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precisión
- The report lacked the necessary specificity to support the claims made by the researcher.
- lack of specificity
- degree of specificity
- specificity and clarity
And they measured these with a specificity that's just stunning.
- And they measured these with a specificity that's just stunning.
- And in many cases, you need some specificity to the actual problem you're solving.
- There has to be specificity to your vision and your path to execution.
- The reward for authenticity more than offsets the specificity with which you pursue your mission.
- And there is a sense of the specificity there.
- See, a loser thinks in generalities, winners think in specificities.
- We are going so far into specificity.
- The thing there is that, and this is hard to communicate if you unless you've seen it yourself, but it's the specificity coupled with its complexity.
- Other actors just need less and more specificity.
- Oh, oh, multiple specificity, You know what I'm saying?
- This is capturing the the specificity, man.
- Well, it translates to better overall feelings of well-being when one is placing more specificity on positive emotions.
Examples
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I'm gonna need a little more specificity than that.
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Thus, cloud storage providers can better protect their users' privacy by adding specificity to their terms of service.
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There has to be specificity to your vision and your path to execution.
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And in many cases, you need some specificity to the actual problem you're solving.
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Educational goals, however, lack the specificity necessary to guide instruction on a day-to-day basis.
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Other experts in reading chose to add more specificity to their descriptions of reading comprehension.
Academic text (2012) -
Although they vary significantly in specificity, the ACCC standards do provide an excellent beginning yardstick.
Academic text (1993) -
Yet in issuing the ruling, the judge held that the complaint lacked specificity in its allegations of Federal Privacy Act violations.
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I'm used to parents imagining dreadful diseases in the middle of the night, but rarely with such specificity.
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Each particular progressive agenda gained coherence and specificity from the other intellectual commitments paired with it.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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3.0
How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes
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7.2
Being clear and exact about one thing
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8.4
Careful attention to small details that makes things correct
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4.1
A state of being accurate and free from mistakes
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6.4
A clear and exact way of saying something so people cannot misunderstand
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5.6
The quality of being clear and certain so people have no doubt
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5.5
How clear and easy to recognize a shape or sound is
Being exact and clear about small details
A clear, exact amount or value that does not change
A clear and certain quality that makes something predictable
A state of being clear and exact so there is no doubt
A clear and final quality that leaves no doubt
Giving a detailed description of one example
Careful, detailed work that has many small parts or decorations
Antonyms
How Specific
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word specificity comes from the Latin root species meaning 'kind' or 'type', and over time the idea grew into 'being exact' or detailed. So when we talk about the specificity of a description, we mean clear, exact information rather than something general.