| 单词 | pluralism |
| 释义 | pluralism (once / 9633 pages) 1n 2n 3n If you believe in pluralism, you believe that people of all races, classes, religions, and backgrounds should be able to get along on equal footing in society. Can you hear the word plural, meaning "more than one," in pluralism? Someone who believes in pluralism believes that there are many different ways to live, and thinks that government and society should be structured in such a way as to encourage and appreciate people's differences. The extreme opposite of pluralism is totalitarianism, when one supreme dictator makes all the decisions and no one can contradict him. In the Catholic Church, pluralism is also the practice of holding more than one office at once. WORD FAMILYpluralism: pluralist, pluralistic+/plural: pluralise, pluralism, plurality, pluralize, plurally, plurals/pluralise: pluralisation, pluralising/pluralist: pluralists/pluralistic: pluralistically/plurality: pluralities/pluralize: pluralization, pluralized, pluralizes, pluralizing USAGE EXAMPLESIn some ways, “One Dance” unassumingly flies directly in the face of Roof’s refusal of pluralism and intersectional identity as the future of planetary humanity. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) Most troubling is way that Trump is shaping the White House to undermine American pluralism and advance a vision of ethno-nationalist government. Slate(Dec 20, 2016) “We should not import Middle East extremism. We should export our moderate Islamic philosophy and pluralism.” Seattle Times(Nov 29, 2016) 1 n a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated 2Hyper social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships n the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time 3Hyper pattern, practice a customary way of operation or behavior n the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements Ant|Hyper monism the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school |
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