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

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)

Derivation:

homogeneous (all of the same or similar kind or nature)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

What's that jawbreaker definition about something or other, of Spencer's, that you sprang on us the other day—that indefinite, incoherent homogeneity thing?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

That homogeneity, or sameness, indicates the crystallizing magma was well-mixed.

(Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone may have been more active in the past, NSF)

Instead of rambling this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside—East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)