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say it: PLUUR-uh-liz-uhm
pluralism is a noun meaning "a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated". It is pronounced /ˈplʊɹəˌlɪzəm/ — PLUUR-uh-liz-uhm. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pluralism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.