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Specificity vs Genericity - What's the difference?

specificity | genericity | Antonyms |

Specificity is an antonym of genericity.


As nouns the difference between specificity and genericity

is that specificity is the state of being specific rather than general while genericity is genericness, the state or quality of being generic.

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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    genericity

    English

    Noun

  • Genericness, the state or quality of being generic.

    • Synonyms

    * genericness

    Antonyms

    * specificity