pluralism

Meanings

1. The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
2. The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
3. A social system that permits smaller groups within a society to maintain their individual cultural identities.
4. The belief that there should be diverse and competing centers of power in society.
5. The acknowledgement of a diversity of political systems.
6. The existence of differing legal systems in a population or area.
7. The belief that values can be simultaneously antagonistic and incommensurable.
8. The belief that a plural predicate refers to its individuals rather than to a collective.

Etymology

From plural + -ism.

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