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
However, there’s so little specificity to the characters’ careers or surrounding events, even on the precipice of a brand new calendar year, that the question is left floating in limbo.
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 June 2025
Yet the phrase’s intentional lack of specificity is a big part of its utility: What the user means is left to the audience’s interpretation.
—Jay Tcath, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
The result is a more sprawling yet direct coming-of-age tale animated by the specificity of its characters.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 June 2025
Youssef likes to start broad with his humor and then add layers of specificity.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 2 June 2025
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 June 2025
Yet the phrase’s intentional lack of specificity is a big part of its utility: What the user means is left to the audience’s interpretation.
—Jay Tcath, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
The result is a more sprawling yet direct coming-of-age tale animated by the specificity of its characters.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 June 2025
Youssef likes to start broad with his humor and then add layers of specificity.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for specificity
Noun
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Jones has a lower ceiling, but he's shown more accuracy than Richardson so far.—
Steve Bradshaw,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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His accuracy was really impressive Wednesday and Thursday.—
Bruce Feldman,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
Noun
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Every flyby has to be done with extreme precision so the Solar Orbiter passes through exactly the right point in space at a precise point in time.—
David Szondy
June 15,
New Atlas,
15 June 2025
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Like a lot of Hollywood job specialties, the work of the stunt person is a mix of art and science, balletic grace and precision engineering (the other key element, guts, is a necessary but not sufficient qualification).—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
14 June 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 28 Jun. 2025.
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