specificalityn.
rare.
The quality of being specific.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun]
specificality1660
specificness1682
specificity1879
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun] > quality of being specific or detailed
specialty1384
circumstance1393
punctuality1620
punctualness1620
specializing1633
particularity1638
detailedness1842
specificality1858
detailism1865
1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis i. 96 That same Specificality taketh its Original and Rise from External Things.
1756 J. Clubbe Physiognomy in Misc. Tracts (1770) I. 20 They agree indeed so much..that their specificality is swallowed up in their general likeness.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. iii. 422 Official List of them was drawn up here, with the fit specificality.
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