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Admixture vs Hodgepodge - What's the difference?

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Admixture is a related term of hodgepodge.


As nouns the difference between admixture and hodgepodge

is that admixture is an instance of admixing, a mixing-in of something while hodgepodge is a collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble.

admixture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instance of admixing, a mixing-in of something.
    • The admixture of vanilla extract in the dough improved the pastries' flavor.
  • # A mixing-in of a biologically or genetically differentiated group to an established stock.
  • #*
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  • A mixture, in some contexts
  • # (epilepsy) a mixture composed of entities retaining their individual properties.
  • Background EEG demonstrates an admixture of theta and delta waves.

    • Related terms

    * admix

    hodgepodge

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hodge-podge

    Noun

  • A collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble.
    • His latest sculpture is a hodgepodge''' of kitchen clutter and scrap glued together. In fact, all his recent pieces have been similar '''hodgepodges .
  • * 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
    • Man's life is but vain, for 'tis subject to pain, / And sorrow, and short as a bubble; / 'Tis a hodge-podge of business, and money, and care, / And care, and money, and trouble.

    Synonyms

    * farrago, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag * See also