Gill and Oberlander (2002), and later Mairesse et al. (2007),show that people with a neurotic personality tend to use con-crete words more frequently. Inspired by this, we explore ifpeople of a certain personality type tend to use terms withhigh specificity. The specificity of a term is a measure ofhow general or specific the referred concept is. For exam-ple,entityis a very general concept whereasball-point penis a very specific concept

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