pluralism

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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

From plural + -ism.

"[1] This is pluralism, somewhat rhapsodically expressed. — The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, William James
It is protest enough against the pluralism they want to reform if I give somebody else most of the money. — Middlemarch, George Eliot
The philosophy which I wish to advocate may be called logical atomism or absolute pluralism, because, while maintaining that there are many things, it denies that there is a whole composed of those things. — Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays, Bertrand Russell

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