homogenous

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Similarly, on the supposition that God creates the world in an infinite, homogenous, absolute time, there could be no reason for God's creating the world at one time rather than at another time.

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  1. adjective Of or exhibiting homogeny.
  2. adjective Homogeneous.

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  • They no longer lived in a real town, or city, but in a homogenous area full of Stepford wives and transient, ethically-challenged CEOs. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • Similarly, on the supposition that God creates the world in an infinite, homogenous, absolute time, there could be no reason for God's creating the world at one time rather than at another time. —  Leibniz's Philosophy of Physics
  • Jevons embraces Spencer’s idea that the homogenous is unstable and differentiates itself in the process of evolutionary development. —  William Stanley Jevons
  • Because the hull is homogenous, there are no seams to leak. —  1 Boat Design, Construction, and Propulsion
  • "Their skin was a homogenous, unvarying bronze hue, made all the more striking by the extreme variance in hair and eye color that the Chagos's scientists assured the members of the receiving team was natural. —  Dirge
 

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  1. Alteration of homogeneous (probably influenced by homogenize).

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  1. Var. of homogeneous.
 

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/həˈmɑdʒɛnəs/
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