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HOMOGENEITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature
Example:
there is a remarkable homogeneity between the two companies
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)