pluralism

3 definitions found

pluralism - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

pluralism - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pluralism
      n 1: a social organization in which diversity of racial or
           religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
      2: the doctrine that reality consists of several basic
         substances or elements [ant: monism]
      3: the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at
         a time

pluralism - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "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