homogenous

adjective

ho·​mog·​e·​nous hō-ˈmä-jə-nəs How to pronounce homogenous (audio)
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But during the 1929 New Zealand quake, two stations recorded unusually strong P waves, which, Lehmann noted, shouldn’t happen in a fully homogenous core. Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Mar. 2026 Research has found that AI output is much more homogenous than human language. Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026 The goal in the West Bank is to create a homogenous ethnicity in a space that is being cleansed of Palestinians, and to expand the Israeli footprint there. Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026 To get a clear idea of how capable at-home tests were, Hoffman and her team created a trial stool sample by blending healthy fecal matter until the mixture of organisms was homogenous throughout. K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for homogenous

Word History

Etymology

(sense 1) homo- + -genous; (sense 2) probably regularization of homogeneous

Note: Compare French homogène, which appears to be drawn directly from Greek.

First Known Use

1636, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of homogenous was in 1636

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“Homogenous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homogenous. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

Medical Definition

homogenous

adjective
ho·​mog·​e·​nous -nəs How to pronounce homogenous (audio)
1
: homoplastic sense 2
the value of preserved homogenous bone grafts as compared with autogenous graftsPlastic & Reconstructive Surgery
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