Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1.
a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated;
2.
the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements;
3.
the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pluralism \Plu"ral*ism\, n.
1. The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural
number.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Eccl.) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than
one ecclesiastical living at a time. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pluralism
n 1: a social organization in which diversity of racial or
religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
2: the doctrine that reality consists of several basic
substances or elements [ant: monism]
3: the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at
a time