homogeneous
adjective/ˌhɒməˈdʒiːniəs/
/ˌhəʊməˈdʒiːniəs/
(also homogenous
(formal)/həˈmɒdʒənəs/
/həˈmɑːdʒənəs/
)- consisting of things or people that are all the same or all of the same type
- a homogeneous group/mixture/population
- a culturally homogeneous society
- Old people are not a homogeneous group, as some people seem to think.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- remarkably
- very
- fairly
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent. (as homogeneity): from medieval Latin homogeneus, from Greek homogenēs, from homos ‘same’ + genos ‘race, kind’.Definitions on the go
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