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PLURALISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pluralism" is a kind of...):
pattern; practice (a customary way of operation or behavior)
Derivation:
pluralist (a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pluralism" is a kind of...):
doctrine; ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)
Antonym:
monism (the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element)
Derivation:
pluralist (a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature)
pluralistic (of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of pluralism)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("pluralism" is a kind of...):
social organisation; social organization; social structure; social system; structure (the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships)
Derivation:
pluralist (someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society)
pluralistic (of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of pluralism)
