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homogenize

verb

  1. CAUSE to become uniform in consistency/structure
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /həˈmɒdʒənaɪz/ / /həˈmɑːd͡ʒənaɪz/

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English homogen(eous) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English homogenize From homogen(eous) + -ize.

  1. To make or treat as homogeneous or uniform.

    While we neither refute nor endorse this contention of arrival at a more inclusive postmodernity, our analyses seek to explore the strange agencies that neoliberalism has set into motion under the banner of ablenationalism: first in a discussion of a backlash against the homogenizing implications of universal disability access design in cities and national monuments addressed by the contemporary European art theorist Paul Virilio, and in the complaints about paving over U.S. national parklands by American desert environmentalist Edward Abbey.

  2. To make or treat as homogeneous or uniform.
  3. To make or treat as homogeneous or uniform.