Pluralism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pluralism
       n : the doctrine that reality consists of several basic
           substances or elements

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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