'Pluralism' definitions:
Definition of 'pluralism'
(from WordNet)
noun
A social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
noun
The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements [ant: monism]
noun
The practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time
Definition of 'Pluralism'
From: GCIDE
- Pluralism \Plu"ral*ism\, n.
- 1. The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Eccl.) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pluralism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Nazism,
- 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