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HOMOGENEITY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does homogeneity mean?

• HOMOGENEITY (noun)
The noun HOMOGENEITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature
2. the quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure

Familiarity information: HOMOGENEITY used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HOMOGENEITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

homogeneity; homogeneousness

Context example:

there is a remarkable homogeneity between the two companies

Hypernyms ("homogeneity" is a kind of...):

uniformity; uniformness (the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom))

Antonym:

heterogeneity (the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("homogeneity" is a kind of...):

uniformity (a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying)

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