Heterogeneity: meaning, example and synonyms

Heterogeneityn. The quality of being made up of parts that are diverse or unlike one another.

Example

Because the survey's respondents ranged from rural retirees to urban students, the heterogeneity of the sample made any single summary statistic misleading.

Part of speech: noun
Synonyms: diversity, variety, dissimilarity, mixture
Antonyms: homogeneity, uniformity, sameness, similarity
Memory tip: hetero (different) + genus (kind): made of different kinds.

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Question 1

Because the class included both native speakers and students who had studied the language for only a month, its ______ made it hard for the teacher to pitch lessons at a single level.

Question 2

Far from uniform, the granite showed striking ______: under the microscope, crystals of quartz, feldspar, and mica appeared in every size and hue.

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