Definitions for specificity

specificity spec·i·fic·i·ty

Spelling: [spes-uh-fis-i-tee]
IPA: /ˌspɛs əˈfɪs ɪ ti/

Specificity is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 23 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 271 anagrams from letters in specificity (ccefiiipsty).

Definitions for specificity

noun

  1. the quality or state of being specific.
  2. Biochemistry, Pharmacology. the selective attachment or influence of one substance on another, as an antibiotic and its target organism or an antibody and its specific antigen.

Origin of specificity

First recorded in 1875-80; specific + -ity

Examples for specificity

The specificity of the form as a whole is contingent also according to Lamarckism.

The first phenomenon which strikes us in this connection is again a phenomenon of specificity.

But everything in Abbudin feels willfully generic, as if even the tiniest hint of specificity might give offense.

This specificity of embryos was affirmed with even greater confidence by Sedgwick in a paper critical of von Baer's law.

So broad is this metaphor that it risks denying the actual man—and his actual struggle—of all his specificity, all his complexity.

The specificity of the reporting instructions are strangely comforting… follow these steps exactly, and you will live.

The fact of specificity is supported by the fact of constancy of forms.

specificity in bacterial disease with special reference to silkworms and tent caterpillars.

The exact nature of U.S. retaliation remains hazy, but no less intimidating for its lack of specificity.

The lack of specificity led White House spokesman Jay Carney to dub the plan “magic beans and fairy dust.”

Word Value for specificity
Scrable

23

Words with friends

25

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