1. 多元化；多元性
    If there is pluralism within a society, it has many different groups and political parties.

    e.g. ...as the country shifts towards political pluralism.
           随着该国转向政治多元化

1. the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time

2. the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements

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