homogeneous

adjective

ho·mo·ge·neous ˌhō-mə-ˈjē-nē-əs

-ˈjēn-yəs

Synonyms of homogeneous next

: of the same or a similar kind or nature

: of uniform structure or composition throughout

a culturally homogeneous neighborhood

: having the property that if each variable is replaced by a constant times that variable the constant can be factored out : having each term of the same degree if all variables are considered

a homogeneous equation

homogeneously adverb

homogeneousness noun

Example Sentences

In their natural state, mountains of this type are almost entirely covered by dense forest. The wooded landscape is very uniform, lacking in contrast, and any disturbance of the homogeneous green blanket is very obvious … —

John Crowley, Focus on Geography, Winter 2007

One odd side effect is that, during the last 20 years, the formerly homogeneous, rather stodgy world of academic criticism has diversified into an incoherent mob of competing factions. —

Walter Kendrick, New York Times Book Review, 24 Dec. 1995

The Benedictine convents for women, which had begun to be founded soon after Benedict's day, became particularly homogeneous in their social composition. The nuns of the ninth and tenth centuries were all high-born ladies, and it was almost impossible to be admitted to these convents without being a widowed or maiden relative of an important lord. —

Norman F. Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages, 1993

a fairly homogeneous collection of examples

Recent Examples on the Web Croatia, almost ethnically homogeneous as a result of the 1990s violence that drove out many Serbs and members of other minorities, has mostly moved beyond the narrow ethnonationalism of Mr. Tudjman’s era and become a member of the European Union and NATO. —

Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023 In most media, the French Revolution and the years leading up to it are so whitewashed that you’d be forgiven for thinking France was homogeneous at that time. —

Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2023 Not only were those funds repayable on demand, however, the depositor base was homogeneous — and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors tend to move in lockstep. —

Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023 Cut them coarsely with a knife so as to obtain homogeneous portions. —

Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2022 Nor will any country ever have a morally pure, homogeneous Left. —

Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022 In Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood, you’re reminded that South Korea is neither homogeneous nor locked into an abstemious order. —

E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022 Right now, boards are homogeneous. —

Debra Mccormack, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023 Historians have long thought the Gravettian people were homogeneous, despite ranging from Southern to Central Europe. —

Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2022 See More

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