specificnessn.
rare.
Specific character or quality.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun]
specificality1660
specificness1682
specificity1879
1682 H. More Annot. Disc. Truth 233 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. For a Spirit is nothing else but such a specifick simple Substance or Essence, the Specifickness of whose nature onely is its real intimate Form.
1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II
1852 T. T. Lynch Lett. to Scattered (1872) 249 There should be much specificness in prayer, yet may too large a portion of our prayer be specific.
1852 T. T. Lynch Lett. to Scattered (1872) 251 Peculiar natural character will give specificness to a man's sins.
1905 W. Stevens Let. 31 Dec. (1967) 85 Reflections..on Japanese life, on specificness,..on my future.
1966 J. Ellis in C. E. Bazell In Memory of J. R. Firth 83 By register-choice is meant the particular register out of the performer's range to which the utterance may be assigned..the specificness of the assignment depending on the delicacy of the analysis.
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