pluralism

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Etymology

plural +‎ -ism

Noun

pluralism (plural pluralisms)

1. The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
2. (ecclesiastical) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
3. (social sciences) A social system based on mutual respect for each other's cultures among various groups that make up a society, wherein subordinate groups do not have to forsake their lifestyle and traditions but, rather, can express their culture and participate in the larger society free of prejudice.
   • 2007, Matthias Koenig; Paul F. A. Guchteneire, Unesco, Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies‎, page 251:

     Instead, it is more probable that globalization is leading to a plurality of pluralisms.

Synonyms

• (ecclesiastical): plurality

Related terms

• plural
• pluralist
• pluralistic

Translations

quality or state of being plural

Croatian: pluralizam (hr) m. Irish: iolrachas (ga) m.

Manx: yl-raghys (gv) m.

state of pluralist

Croatian: pluralizam (hr) m.

social system based on mutual respect for each other's cultures among various groups

Chinese: Mandarin: 多元主義 (zh), 多元主义 (zh) (duōyuánzhǔyì) Croatian: pluralizam (hr) m. Dutch: pluralisme (nl) n. French: pluralisme (fr) m. German: Pluralismus (de) m.

Irish: iolrachas (ga) m. Japanese: 多元主義 (ja) (たげんしゅぎ, tagenshugi) Manx: yl-raghys (gv) m. Russian: плюрализм (ru) (pljuralízm) m. Spanish: pluralismo (es) m.

References

• pluralism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913