pluralism

noun8

1. •
   The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
2. •
   A social system that permits smaller groups within a society to maintain their individual cultural identities.

   • Instead, it is more probable that globalization is leading to a plurality of pluralisms. — 2007
3. •
   The belief that there should be diverse and competing centers of power in society.
4. •
   The acknowledgement of a diversity of political systems.
5. •
   The belief that values can be simultaneously antagonistic and incommensurable.

   • Due to pluralism and conflicts within the good itself, such perfection, for Berlin, is not possible. A compromise does not bring us closer to a higher telos in history. — 2006
6. •
   The existence of differing legal systems in a population or area.
7. •
   The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
8. •
   The belief that a plural predicate refers to its individuals rather than to a collective.