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pluralism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pluralism has 3 senses
- pluralism(n = noun.group) Array - a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated; Array is a kind of social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure
- pluralism(n = noun.cognition) Array - the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements; Array is a kind of doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought
- pluralism(n = noun.act) Array - the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time; Array is a kind of pattern, practice
Derived forms noun pluralist3, adjective pluralistic1
Antonym: monism
Derived forms noun pluralist2, adjective pluralistic1
Derived form noun pluralist1
CIDE DICTIONARY
pluralism, n.
- The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number. [1913 Webster]
- The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pluralism, n.
1 holding more than one office, esp. an ecclesiastical office or benefice, at a time.
2 a form of society in which the members of minority groups maintain their independent cultural traditions.
3 Philos. a system that recognizes more than one ultimate principle (cf. MONISM 2).
1 holding more than one office, esp. an ecclesiastical office or benefice, at a time.
2 a form of society in which the members of minority groups maintain their independent cultural traditions.
3 Philos. a system that recognizes more than one ultimate principle (cf. MONISM 2).
Derivative
pluralist n. pluralistic adj. pluralistically adv.
THESAURUS
pluralism
Nazism, a certain number, a few, admixture, alloyage, amalgamation, blending, capriciousness, centralism, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, coalescence, collectivism, combination, comminglement, commingling, commixture, communism, composition, constitutionalism, dappleness, democratism, deviation, difference, differentiation, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification, dualism, eclecticism, fascism, federalism, feudalism, feudality, fusion, governmentalism, immixture, imperialism, inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, instability, integration, interfusion, interlarding, interlardment, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture, irregularity, jerkiness, mercuriality, merger, mingling, mixing, mixture, monarchism, more, motleyness, mutability, national socialism, neofascism, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, nonuniqueness, numerousness, parliamentarianism, parliamentarism, plurality, pluralness, political principles, raggedness, republicanism, royalism, several, socialism, statism, syncretism, unconformism, unconformity, unevenness, unorthodoxy, unsteadiness, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wavering
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