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n. - The quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind.

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Usage examples (15)
  • Adjective : The party was attended by a heterogeneous group of artists, politicians, and social climbers
  • Matter of this nature cannot be homogeneous, and must necessarily contain all sorts of heterogeneousness.
  • Considering the heterogeneousness of their economic, political and social factors, this phenomenon can only be explained on the basis of a generalized contradiction...
  • Indeed, by pointing to the immense heterogeneousness of India's cultural background and its richly diverse history, Tagore had argued that the "idea of India" itself...
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