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HETEROGENEOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind
Synonyms:
heterogeneity; heterogeneousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("heterogeneousness" is a kind of...):
nonuniformity (the quality of being diverse and interesting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heterogeneousness"):
diverseness; diversity; multifariousness; variety (noticeable heterogeneity)
Derivation:
heterogeneous (consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature)