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especificidade

Portuguese, noun/is.pe.si.fi.siˈda.d͡ʒi/

especificidade is spelled E-S-P-E-C-I-F-I-C-I-D-A-D-E (14 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 25,925th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Especificidade is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “specificity (the state of being specific rather than general)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “qualidade do que é específico”.

What does especificidade mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininespecificity (the state of being specific rather than general)

  2. 2

    femininespecificity (a specific aspect of something)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. qualidade do que é específico 2. característica de uma doença cujos sintomas são constantes e as causas sempre semelhantes 3. afinidade de um antígeno com um certo anticorpo 4. propriedade de participar de apenas uma ou de muito poucas reações químicas (diz-se de enzimas, catalisadores etc.)

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of especificidade

  • especificidades plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce especificidade?

  • Brazil /is.pe.si.fi.siˈda.d͡ʒi/
  • Brazil /es.pe.si.fi.siˈda.d͡ʒi/
  • /iʃ.pe.si.fi.siˈda.d͡ʒi/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to especificidade

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is especificidade in Portuguese?

especificidade appears 1.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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