Word Study
heterogamous |
heterogamy |
heterogangliate |
heterogene |
heterogeneal |
heterogeneity
| heterogeneous
| heterogeneousness
| heterogenesis
| heterogenetic
| heterogenist
heterogeneity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun heterogeneity has 1 sense
- heterogeneity(n = noun.attribute) heterogeneousness - the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind; Array is a kind of nonuniformity
has particulars: diverseness, diversity, multifariousness, variety
Derived form adjective heterogeneous1
Antonym: homogeneity
CIDE DICTIONARY
heterogeneity, n. [Cf. F. hétérogénéité.].
The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety. [1913 Webster]
"The difference, indeed the heterogeneity, of the two may be felt."
[1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
heterogeneity
Irrelation
N irrelation, dissociation, misrelation, inapplicability, inconnection, multifariousness, disconnection, inconsequence, independence, incommensurability, irreconcilableness, heterogeneity, unconformity, irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem, intrusion, non-pertinence, irrelative, irrespective, unrelated, arbitrary, independent, unallied, unconnected, disconnected, adrift, isolated, insular, extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic, not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous, unconformable, irrelevant, inapplicable, not pertinent, not to the, purpose, impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes, aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point, misplaced, traveling out of the record, remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing, detached, segregate, disquiparant, multifarious, discordant, incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic, parenthetically, by the way, by the by, en passant, incidentally, irrespectively, without reference to, without regard to, in the abstract, a se.
For further exploring for "heterogeneity" in Webster Dictionary Online