Pluralism

['plʊər(ə)lɪz(ə)m]

解释:

(noun.) the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time.

(noun.) the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.

(noun.) a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated.

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解释:

(n.) The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.

(n.) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.

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