specificity
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English
Etymology
From specific + -ity. Compare French spécificité.
Pronunciation
Noun
specificity (usually uncountable, plural specificities)
- The state of being specific rather than general.
- 2024 October 14, Patrick Eddington, James Craven, Police Want the Password to Your Phone:
- 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.
- The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:
- (statistics) The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
- Coordinate term: sensitivity
- (medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for, or a symptom or sign is specific to, a given condition.
- (statistics) The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
Synonyms
- specificness (much less common)
Antonyms
Coordinate terms
- (statistics, binary probability): sensitivity
Derived terms
- allospecificity
- aspecificity
- bispecificity
- chemospecificity
- conspecificity
- diastereospecificity
- enantiospecificity
- heterospecificity
- heterosubspecificity
- homospecificity
- hyperspecificity
- immunospecificity
- interspecificity
- intraspecificity
- isospecificity
- monospecificity
- multispecificity
- neospecificity
- neurospecificity
- nonspecificity
- organospecificity
- overspecificity
- paraspecificity
- polyspecificity
- regiospecificity
- serospecificity
- stereospecificity
- subspecificity
- unspecificity
- xenospecificity
Translations
the state of being specific rather than general
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(statistics) probability in a binary classification test of a true negative being correctly identified
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References
- ^ “specificity, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “specificity”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “specificity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.