0 the act of intentionally choosing some people or things and not others:
Colleges encourage applicants to apply early to enhance their image of selectivity.
The selectivity of attention shows that what we perceive depends on us, as when you focus on a bird in flight and ignore the sky behind it.
Did this culinary selectivity represent a distortion of tradition?
Future studies may address whether unexpected ionic or molecular selectivities appear in the substates.
It is unclear however how ganglion cells may derive such cone selectivity.
Quinoxalines block the mechanism of directional selectivity in ganglion cells of the rabbit retina.
When the test spot was moved in nonpreferred directions, the selectivity for opposing motion disappeared.
