pluralism

Meanings

Plural: pluralisms

Noun

• a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
• the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements
• the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time
• The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
• The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
• A social system that permits smaller groups within a society to maintain their individual cultural identities.
• The belief that there should be diverse and competing centers of power in society.
• The acknowledgement of a diversity of political systems.
• The existence of differing legal systems in a population or area.
• The belief that values can be simultaneously antagonistic and incommensurable.
• The belief that a plural predicate refers to its individuals rather than to a collective.

Synonyms

plurality

Antonyms

monism

Related Words

plural, pluralist, pluralistic