Home › Words › D › despecificationdespecificationdespecification means the act of generalizing, or making less specific.EtymologyFrom de- + specification.nounThe act of generalizing, or making less specific.e.g.“[…] Brooten's despecification of the term "tribade" and her tendency to understand it as if it were a generic designation for a woman possessed of a lifelong homoerotic orientation.” — 2002, Martha Craven Nussbaum, Juha Sihvola, The Sleep of Reason, page 267:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.despecialization 73% match — The process of despecializing; loss of specialization. vs despecification →degeneralize 72% match — To make less general and more specific. vs despecification →despecialize 71% match — To make no longer specialized; to make generally applicable or accessible. vs despecification →degeneralization 69% match — The process of degeneralizing. vs despecification →despecificate 68% match — To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. vs despecification →unspecify 67% match — To undo the specification of. vs despecification →underspecification 66% match — Inadequate specification; failure to specify in enough detail. vs despecification →underspecify 66% match — To give insufficient, or insufficiently precise, information; to specify incompletely. vs despecification →