But everything in Abbudin feels willfully generic, as if even the tiniest hint of specificity might give offense.
The specificity of the reporting instructions are strangely comforting… follow these steps exactly, and you will live.
So broad is this metaphor that it risks denying the actual man—and his actual struggle—of all his specificity, all his complexity.
The lack of specificity led White House spokesman Jay Carney to dub the plan “magic beans and fairy dust.”
The exact nature of U.S. retaliation remains hazy, but no less intimidating for its lack of specificity.
The specificity of the form as a whole is contingent also according to Lamarckism.
The fact of specificity is supported by the fact of constancy of forms.
The first phenomenon which strikes us in this connection is again a phenomenon of specificity.
This specificity of embryos was affirmed with even greater confidence by Sedgwick in a paper critical of von Baer's law.
specificity in bacterial disease with special reference to silkworms and tent caterpillars.
specificity spec·i·fic·i·ty (spěs'ə-fĭs'ĭ-tē)
n.
The condition or state of being specific.
The statistical probability that an individual who does not have the particular disease being tested for will be correctly identified as negative, expressed as the proportion of true negative results to the total of true negative and false positive results.
