# pluralism

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #32,972

## Definitions
1. The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
2. The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
3. A social system that permits smaller groups within a society to maintain their individual cultural identities.
4. The belief that there should be diverse and competing centers of power in society.
5. The acknowledgement of a diversity of political systems.
6. The existence of differing legal systems in a population or area.
7. The belief that values can be simultaneously antagonistic and incommensurable.
8. The belief that a plural predicate refers to its individuals rather than to a collective.

## Etymology
From plural + -ism.

## Easily confused with
- **plurality** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pluralism-vs-plurality)

## Common misspellings (14)
`lpuralism`, `plluralism`, `plrualism`, `pluarlism`, `plurailsm`, `pluralims`, `pluralismm`, `pluralissm`, `plurallism`, `pluralsim`, `plurlaism`, `plurralism`, `ppluralism`, `pulralism`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pluralism