PLURALISM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)

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)