Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or quality of being homogeneous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or character of being homogeneous; likeness or correspondence of parts or qualities; composition from like parts; agreement in elements or characteristics; congruity of constitution.
Wiktionary
- n. The state or quality of being homogeneous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as homogeneousness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature
- n. the quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure
Examples
“It's difficult to argue that all this Ivy League homogeneity is a bad thing.”
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“In both of the long exerts that you quote, the authors are taking a position along the lines of “surely there are genetic traits that link populations together because genetic diversity and homogeneity is such a key part of evolution, “race” is a problem category.””
“In both of the long exerts that you quote, the authors are taking a position along the lines of “surely there are genetic traits that link populations together because genetic diversity and homogeneity is such a key part of evolution, “race” is a problem category – but we should celebrate and study genetic diversity.””
“And in the end, some part of everything will come to define our reality (homogeneity is net bad, anyway).”
“The homogeneity is a serious problem, however, and new techniques had to be invented to increase precision.”
“One of the examples Dr. Bentley mentioned that stuck with me was how when we go to buy a pair of glasses, we tend to buy glasses that we’d seen people wearing on the way to the store (frequency dependent bias, which results in homogeneity, which in turn results in something becoming contagious – or to me, a trend).”
“Instead, it looks like the key variable is voter homogeneity, which is in turn a strongly negative function of population.”
“In mathe - matics, the feature of “evenness of structure” that we have in mind, is nowadays termed homogeneity, and is defined below.”
“When we speak of God's indwelling in man, we predicate that community of nature which the writer of Gen. ii expresses by saying that God created man in His own image; we predicate, _i. e._, what we already called homogeneity -- likeness of substance -- and not identity, which is a very different thing.”
“But the sequence itself suffers from exactly this flaw, a kind of homogeneity of disruptedness.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘homogeneity’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
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art & art historical
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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big book gre
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Interesting words
ineffable, effable, immutable, amorphous, parochial, salient, ascertain, circumspect, congenial, coeval, aversion, edification and 117 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Words from The Great Gatsby
epigram, supercilious, effeminate, fractiousness, conscientious, carriage, imperatively, languidly, precede, preceded, turbulent, libel and 45 more...
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