How to Use specificity in a Sentence

specificity

noun

• I was impressed by the specificity of her instructions.
• The specificity extends to the premise for the whole movie.
  — Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2021
• What sticks out over the course of the picture is the sheer level of specificity.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• The lack of specificity seemed to push Disney Stock ending down about 3% for the day.
  — Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
• Chapek’s memo builds off of that with more specificity.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Nov. 2022
• The scenes set in Jane’s classroom gleam with specificity and verve.
  — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• The key adaptation for a client with ADHD is the specificity of the step goals.
  — Antonia Bowring, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• The same can be said of her pictures, where specificity is a bit of a red herring.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2024
• In the spirit of the game, Goldstein and Daley revel in the specificities of their world.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• One of the many strange things pain does is thrust you back into your own specificity over and over again.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
• That specificity extends to the time period of the movie—in this case, 2002.
  — Amit Katwala, Wired, 11 Mar. 2022
• The CarPlay bug is perhaps the strangest iOS 15 bug yet just because of its specificity.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 30 Sep. 2021
• And the theory was, the specificity of it was Christian was friends with Chip.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 20 June 2024
• The clinic idea gave the show structure and specificity.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2021
• The main difference is price and specificity: front-end and back end.
  — Jon Younger, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• The specificity of the outcomes is critical for the success of the programs.
  — Gooty Agraharam, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• And just like with all good writing, specificity helps.
  — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
• The weird specificity of this dialogue catches in the ear.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
• One note of specificity Leach highlights is the reveal of Sofia’s scar on her shoulder in Episode 4.
  — Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
• And the wire — the analogy of the wire is really like the molecular specificity.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• And yet, the strength of her best bits is the specificity and depth of her analysis of her own psychology.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• Maybe more so than any other colour, red asks for specificity.
  — Katy Kelleher, refinery29.com, 15 Oct. 2024
• But the company would not offer more specificity at the time.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
• But the goal of this research is to keep the specificity and difference of Champagne against all other sparkling wines.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2021
• Were all these notes of cultural specificity in the screenplay from the onset?
  — Gabriel Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• Of course, getting to the bottom of which are the best coupes in 2024 will require some serious specificity.
  — Kyle Hyatt, Robb Report, 29 July 2024
• The lack of specificity gives the imagery an immanence.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024
• One of my other friends who works in post was talking about it just that specificity of the writing in that moment was so good.
  — Marisa Roffman, Variety, 18 Oct. 2021
• That first film, which celebrates the strength and power of young girls — as well as Polynesian culture with reverence and specificity — was a balm in the uncertain November of 2016.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
• This is the heart of what makes Miranda’s Disney music so peerless: a specificity and deep understanding of character that takes a generational talent to get right.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025