specificity
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /spɛsɪˈfɪsɪti/
specificity (plural specificities)
- The state of being specific rather than general.
- The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:
- (statistics) The probability, in a binary test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
- (medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for, or a symptom or sign is specific to, a given condition.
- specificness (much less common)
- French: spécificité
- Italian: specificità
- Portuguese: especificidade
- Spanish: especificidad
- French: spécificité
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