Specificity

Specificity may refer to:


 * Being specific (disambiguation)
 * Specificity (statistics), the proportion of negatives in a binary classification test which are correctly identified
 * Sensitivity and specificity, in relation to medical diagnostics
 * Specificity (linguistics), whether a noun phrase has a particular referent as opposed to referring to any member of a class
 * Specificity (symbiosis), the taxonomic range an organism associates with in a symbiosis
 * 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"
 * , determines which styles are applied to an html element when more than one rule could apply.
 * Chemical specificity, in chemistry and biochemistry, with regard to enzymes or catalysts and their substrates