Both Uses of
homogeneous
in
The Magic Mountain
- When one day is like every other, then all days are like one, and perfect homogeneity would make the longest life seem very short, as if it had flown by in a twinkling.†
Chpt 4.2 *
- Sperm, which transferred the countless, complicated individual and racial characteristics of the father to the egg, was visible only under a microscope; and even the most powerful magnification did not suffice to determine its genesis or allow it to be seen as anything but a homogeneous body—for the sperm of one animal looked like that of every other.†
Chpt 5.7
Definition:
consisting of elements that are all of the same or similar kind