Specificity

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Specificity may refer to:

Being specific (disambiguation)
Specificity (statistics), the proportion of negatives in a binary classification test which are correctly identified
Specificity (linguistics), whether a noun phrase has a particular referent as opposed to referring to any member of a class
Particular, as opposed to abstract, in philosophy
Asset specificity, the extent that investments supporting a particular transaction have a higher value than if they were redeployed for any other purpose
Domain specificity, theory that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized learning devices
Specificity theory, theory that pain is "a specific sensation, with its own sensory apparatus independent of touch and other senses"

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