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
The specificity of engaging with one particular city motivates some of the best of Mulaney’s work.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
The specificity of these requests significantly impacts success rates.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
It’s rooted in the same heartrending themes about tapping into power through passion, but sets itself apart by exploring the story through the specificity of Indian culture.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
Part of that realism lies in the creative team’s approach to cultural specificity.
—Max Gao, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
The specificity of these requests significantly impacts success rates.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
It’s rooted in the same heartrending themes about tapping into power through passion, but sets itself apart by exploring the story through the specificity of Indian culture.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
Part of that realism lies in the creative team’s approach to cultural specificity.
—Max Gao, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for specificity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for specificity
Noun
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The outdated model used for 30 years provided a four-hour lead-time with 50% accuracy when determining whether radiation from a solar flare would reach Earth.—
Sheila Callaham,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Significantly, shot accuracy has improved from 29 per cent to 43 per cent.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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From empowering corporations with actionable emissions data to forging partnerships like the Retail Sustainability Collective, Weiss illuminates how businesses can approach the energy transition with clarity, precision and purpose.—
Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
WWD,
21 Mar. 2025
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Bogdanovich establishes these characters and sets them in motion, whisking them through musical numbers that mix and match the lovers in alternating romantic permutations with a mathematical precision that contrasts beautifully with the uncontrollable chaos of the emotions at stake.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2025
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Though the script successfully condenses several eras of Harmon’s life and captures the quirks and particularities of his mother’s and grandmother’s personalities, the performances really give the material its extra emotional heft.—
Maya Phillips,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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Longer term, a constitutional amendment seems appropriate — perhaps a supplement to Article II, Section 2, stipulating that a pardon, to be valid, must identify the crime with reasonable particularity.—
Robert A. Levy,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Specificity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/specificity. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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