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
Hazel is an African-American Southern teenager, which gives South of Midnight deeper meaning, more cultural weight, and appealing specificity.
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PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
However, there is specificity over the potential severe penalties for doctors who are found to have violated the state’s ban: up to $100,000 in fines, 99 years in prison, and losing their medical license.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 28 Mar. 2025
These treatments are usually tailored to a patient’s immune system, and this specificity can often lead to adverse reactions, according to Dr. Amin Mery of Hill County Allergy and Asthma in Austin.
—Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2025
Fiction, meanwhile, can upturn such collective attitudes by conveying the specificity of actual working lives and workplaces, recognizing that even the most monotonous labor can shape the self.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
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PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
However, there is specificity over the potential severe penalties for doctors who are found to have violated the state’s ban: up to $100,000 in fines, 99 years in prison, and losing their medical license.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 28 Mar. 2025
These treatments are usually tailored to a patient’s immune system, and this specificity can often lead to adverse reactions, according to Dr. Amin Mery of Hill County Allergy and Asthma in Austin.
—Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2025
Fiction, meanwhile, can upturn such collective attitudes by conveying the specificity of actual working lives and workplaces, recognizing that even the most monotonous labor can shape the self.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for specificity
Noun
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But none of those accuracy mistakes compared to Texas’ baserunning blunder in the seventh inning.—
Matt Byrne,
Arkansas Online,
3 May 2025
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The current list, which is the result of reporting by CBS news and whose accuracy the government still won’t confirm, is incomplete.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
2 May 2025
Noun
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The target of the strike was a Hezbollah facility in Beirut which stored precision missiles, according to a joint statement from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
27 Apr. 2025
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Unlike traditional robots that often move with jerky or stiff motions, Iron walks steadily and can manipulate objects with precision thanks to its human-like hands.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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 11 May. 2025.
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