homogeneity
noun
ho·mo·ge·ne·i·ty
| \ ˌhō-mə-jə-ˈnē-ə-tē
, -ˈnā- also nonstandard -ˈnī-; especially British ˌhä-\
, -ˈnā- also nonstandard -ˈnī-; especially British ˌhä-\
Definition of homogeneity
1
: the quality or state of being of a similar kind or of having a uniform structure or composition throughout : the quality or state of being homogeneous
Examples of homogeneity in a Sentence
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The only viewers considered worth courting at that time sought out racial homogeneity. — Sara K. Eskridge, Houston Chronicle, "Why Americans love Mayberry," 19 Aug. 2019 Increasingly, those who had inherited white Protestant traditions defined themselves around racial and ethnic homogeneity, as cultural oppositions began to harden. Anti-immigrant witch hunts and lynch mobs ensued. — Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, "America’s Original Identity Politics," 7 Feb. 2019 But Orange County itself looks radically different from the image of affluent homogeneity that long dominated public consciousness. — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, "Crystal Cathedral, the original evangelical megachurch, has a conversion to Catholicism," 21 July 2019 There is a homogeneity to the architecture of malls. — Meredith Blake, latimes.com, "How 'Stranger Things' made the Starcourt Mall," 11 July 2019 But racial homogeneity is rarely an accident and often achieved at a terrible cost. — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, "N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people.," 3 July 2019 Any elementary science student knows that genetic homogeneity isn’t good in the long term. — Maureen O'hagan, Scientific American, "From Two Bulls, Nine Million Dairy Cows," 20 June 2019 The city, once an idyllic marvel due to its reputation for embracing all kinds, a true representational patchwork of America’s citizens, is now under threat of full homogeneity. — Collier Meyerson, WIRED, "The Last Black Man Searches for ‘Authenticity’ but There Is None," 6 June 2019 Colleges simply don’t pay a price for their sustained attacks on student rights and academic freedom, and there is no cost to them for their insistence on intellectual homogeneity. — WSJ, "It’s Past Time for Real College Board Reform," 15 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'homogeneity.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for homogeneity
homogeneity
noun
ho·mo·ge·ne·i·ty
| \ ˌhō-mə-jə-ˈnē-ət-ē
, -ˈnā-ət-
, ˌhäm-ə-\
, -ˈnā-ət-
, ˌhäm-ə-\
plural homogeneities
Medical Definition of homogeneity
: the quality or state of being homogeneous
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