homogeneous
uniform in composition or character throughout
Word origin: From Greek homos, same, plus genos, kind.
Homogeneous in a sentence
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The small village remained culturally homogeneous for centuries.
Critics complained that the faculty was strikingly homogeneous, drawn almost entirely from three universities.
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Once a blank supporter of the policy, the governor now denounces it at every opportunity, embarrassed that she ever endorsed it.
Using “homogeneous” well
Homogeneous means uniform in composition or character throughout. It is the antonym of heterogeneous, and the two are commonly confused in spelling, so distinguish homo, same, from hetero, other.
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