specificity
English
Etymology
From French spécificité.
Noun
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 classification test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
- Coordinate term: sensitivity
- (medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for, or a symptom or sign is specific to, a given condition.
- (statistics) The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
Synonyms
- specificness (much less common)
Antonyms
Coordinate terms
- (statistics, binary probability): sensitivity
Derived terms
- allospecificity
- aspecificity
- bispecificity
- chemospecificity
- conspecificity
- diastereospecificity
- enantiospecificity
- heterospecificity
- heterosubspecificity
- homospecificity
- hyperspecificity
- immunospecificity
- interspecificity
- intraspecificity
- isospecificity
- monospecificity
- multispecificity
- neospecificity
- neurospecificity
- nonspecificity
- organospecificity
- overspecificity
- paraspecificity
- polyspecificity
- regiospecificity
- serospecificity
- stereospecificity
- subspecificity
- unspecificity
- xenospecificity
Translations
the state of being specific rather than general
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(statistics) probability in a binary classification test of a true negative being correctly identified
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Further reading
- “specificity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “specificity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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