"pluralism" in the noun sense
1. pluralism
a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
2. pluralism
the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements
3. pluralism
the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time
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