specific vs total

specific

adj
  • explicit or definite. 

  • of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy) 

  • similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust) 

  • Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it. 

  • Hyponyms: monospecific, multispecific, oligospecific, paucispecific 

  • intended for, or applying to, a particular thing. 

  • limited to a particular antibody or antigen. 

  • a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air) 

  • pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species. 

  • special, distinctive or unique. 

  • being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms 

noun
  • The details; particulars. 

  • A remedy for a specific disease or condition. 

  • Specification 

  • A distinguishing attribute or quality. 

total

adj
  • Complete; absolute. 

  • Entire; relating to the whole of something. 

  • (of a function) Defined on all possible inputs. 

noun
  • An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts. 

  • Sum. 

verb
  • To equal a total of; to amount to. 

  • To add up; to calculate the sum of. 

  • To amount to; to add up to. 

  • To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss) 

How often have the words specific and total occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )