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
Alternative financing routes remain, including legislative authorization or a public bond measure, but those options would likely require greater specificity about the project’s scope and impacts.
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Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 2 Jan. 2026
Literature depends on specificity, but not the indiscriminate, relentless specificity of real life.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Think Showtime’s The Agency without the geopolitical specificity or punchy dialogue.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
Rather than innovative, the excess of Tom’s Crossing is retrograde, a hypertrophy of specificity in traditional narrative and realist style.
—Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for specificity
Noun
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Motorola built the camera system around Sony’s LYTIA sensor to improve brightness and color accuracy.—
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For decades, the program was known for a rigorous scientific review and inspection process to ensure accuracy.—
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Data centres and automation are raising requirements for power, connectivity, and operational precision.—
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Players use it for precision drills and reaction training.—
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Good care requires a level of presence and attentiveness that just can’t be scaled.—
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The company is aiming squarely at a traveler who wants the convenience of commercial routes but the comfort and attentiveness that usually come with chartering a jet.—
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All have elements specific to Rio de la Plata region and South America, from the ways of telling the stories and the emotional bonds with the characters, as well as locations and the particularities of regional talent.—
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Her book was granular on the subject of embalming, devoting much of her manuscript to the gory particularities of the procedure.—
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While Western societies tend to favor clear, direct communication, Haque said non-Western cultures often view such explicitness as disrespectful, meaning people with roots in those cultures learn to strike a delicate balance between appeasing a difficult elder and staying true to oneself.—
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In a season dominated by a search for sensuality without explicitness, fringe delivered a fresh solution.—
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Just as essential a consideration as carefulness for committee members, though, is speed.—
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“Specificity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/specificity. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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