单词 | specificity |
释义 | specificity (once / 50082 pages) n Specificity is the goal of anyone who wants to know — or give — every single detail. If your friend's story is too vague, ask for specificity when things aren't clear. Specificity may look hard to pronounce, but if you remember that the first syllable rhymes with guess, the rest will flow easily: "spes-uh-FIS-uh-tee." Now try specificus, the Latin word at the root of specificity and the word species. Those words may not seem related — until you think about the classification of living things: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. Species is the most specific in the hierarchy! WORD FAMILYspecificity: specificities+/specific: intraspecific, nonspecific, specifically, specificity, specifics, unspecific/specifically: nonspecifically/unspecific: unspecifically USAGE EXAMPLESBy and large, though, Black Mirror is still brilliant, above all for the way it combines fantasy with specificity. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Nationalist movements adapted it to their specificities, and so did internationalist movements, which is why one of their leaders called anti-Semitism the “socialism of fools.” Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) It is, instead, a music-business comedy marinated in specificity and local flavor, set in a real place with realistic people trying to get by. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1n the quality of being specific rather than general add a desirable note of specificity to the discussion the specificity of the symptoms of the disease Hyper particularity, specialness the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance 2n the quality of being specific to a particular organism host specificity of a parasite Hyper particularity, specialness the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance |
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