What is the difference between access specifiers and access modifiers?

Question

In Java, are access specifiers and access modifiers the same thing?

Answer 1

By using access specifier we define that who one can access our class/method and variable(or whatever with that we use access specifier ). basically java access specifier are four types -

1. public:- Visible to the world,
2. private:- Visible to the class only,
3. protected:- Visible to the package and all subclasses, and
4. default:- Visible to the package

But access modifier are properties of a class/method/variable. Access modifier are five types

1. final:- for finalizing the implementations of classes, methods, and variables
2. static:- for creating class methods and variables
3. Synchronization and volatile modifiers:- which are used for threads
4. abstract:- for creating abstract classes and methods
5. transient