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noun
The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ecclesiastical, lifestyle, religion
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noun
A social system that permits smaller groups within a society to maintain their individual cultural identities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
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noun
The belief that there should be diverse and competing centers of power in society.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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noun
The acknowledgement of a diversity of political systems.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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noun
The existence of differing legal systems in a population or area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
The belief that values can be simultaneously antagonistic and incommensurable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
The belief that a plural predicate refers to its individuals rather than to a collective.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: practice, pattern
noun
the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: monism
Broader terms: doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism
noun
a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure
History
Etymology tree English plural Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English pluralism From plural + -ism.
Across languages
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
