specificity

1. 1.

   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”

   Broaderparticularity
2. 2.

   the quality of being specific to a particular organism

   “host specificity of a parasite”

   Broaderparticularity

Other forms of specificity

plural

specificities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about specificity

What does specificity mean?

specificity means "the quality of being specific rather than general". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in specificity?

specificity has 5 syllables: spec-i-fic-i-ty. The stress falls on "fic". In IPA it is /ˌspɛsəˈfɪsəti/.

Is specificity a common word?

specificity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.