as in accuracy
careful thoroughness of detail
the specificity of your description of your medical condition was a bit more than I needed
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Recent Examples of specificity
When requesting feedback, good collaborators err on the side of specificity.
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Shani Harmon, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
With every prediction, the rest of the panel was in awe of Chalamet’s specificity in his choices, which is slightly backhanded as Chalamet was invited to the show to make predictions on game-winners.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2024
The entire declaration lacks specificity, Velasco added.
—David Biller, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
The show lacks specificity and suffers greatly for it.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2024
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Shani Harmon, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
With every prediction, the rest of the panel was in awe of Chalamet’s specificity in his choices, which is slightly backhanded as Chalamet was invited to the show to make predictions on game-winners.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2024
The entire declaration lacks specificity, Velasco added.
—David Biller, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
The show lacks specificity and suffers greatly for it.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for specificity
Noun
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Indeed, a scholar at West Point, assessing the Israeli programs, observed that more information could make for greater accuracy.Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
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Today’s difficulty The difficulty score is an average rating from our testers, who play the game in advance to check for quality and accuracy.Mark Cooper, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
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Hansi Flick’s Barcelona are a young team whose high-risk approach requires an incredible amount of precision.Pol Ballús, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
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The process involves care, precision, and creativity.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
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There’s enough perverse, sometimes grimly funny particularity to their characterizations to complicate the allegorical leanings of the film’s script, written by the director with an anonymous collaborator, which etches micro-portraits of gaping human sadness in a larger panorama of mass tragedy.Guy Lodge, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
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Every family possesses its own particularity, originality and essence.Holly Jones, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Specificity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/specificity. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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