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Particularity vs Specificity - What's the difference?

particularity | specificity |

As nouns the difference between particularity and specificity

is that particularity is the condition of being particular; attention to detail; fastidiousness while specificity is the state of being specific rather than general.

particularity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being particular; attention to detail; fastidiousness
  • (countable) A particular thing; a peculiarity

    • specificity

    English

    Noun

    (specificities)
  • The state of being specific rather than general.
  • (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 a given condition.

    • Synonyms

    * specificness (much less common)

    Antonyms

    * genericity

    Coordinate terms

    * (sense) sensitivity

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