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

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

(sociology) A social system that permits smaller groups within a society to maintain their individual cultural identities.

(politics) The belief that there should be diverse and competing centers of power in society.

(politics) The acknowledgement of a diversity of political systems.

(law) The existence of differing legal systems in a population or area.

(philosophy) The belief that values can be simultaneously antagonistic and incommensurable.

(philosophy) The belief that a plural predicate refers to its individuals rather than to a collective.