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say it: spes-uh-FIS-uh-tee
specificity is a noun meaning "the quality of being specific rather than general". It is pronounced /ˌspɛsəˈfɪsəti/ — spes-uh-FIS-uh-tee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
the quality of being specific to a particular organism
“host specificity of a parasite”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for specificity come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.