HETEROGENEOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heterogeneousness mean? 

• HETEROGENEOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun HETEROGENEOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind

  Familiarity information: HETEROGENEOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HETEROGENEOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

heterogeneity; heterogeneousness

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

nonuniformity (the quality of being diverse and interesting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heterogeneousness"):

diverseness; diversity; multifariousness; variety (noticeable heterogeneity)

Derivation:

heterogeneous (consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature)