Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

homoeomeria

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ho-moeome-ria
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A doctrine in the philosophy of Anaxagoras, that the atoms constituting a substance must themselves have the salient observed properties of that substance. e.g. atoms of water would be wet, atoms of iron would be hard, atoms of wool would be soft, etc.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios, “similar, like”) or ὁμοῖος (homoîos, “similar, like”) with μέρος (méros, “portion, part, share”).

Inflected Forms

Questions

What does homoeomeria mean?
The state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts.
Where does homoeomeria come from?
From Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios, “similar, like”) or ὁμοῖος (homoîos, “similar, like”) with μέρος (méros, “portion, part, share”).

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