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