Plurality (disambiguation)
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The term plurality refers to a part of a whole which is greater than any other part, but not necessarily a majority. It can also refer to the state of being plural, i.e. as a synonym for multiplicity.
Law and politics
- Plurality opinion, in a decision by a multi-member court, an opinion held by more judges than any other but not by an overall majority
- Plurality voting, system in which each voter votes for one candidate and the candidate with a plurality is elected
- Plurality-at-large voting or block voting, system for electing several representatives from a single electoral district
Psychology and psychiatry
- Multiplicity (psychology), also known as plurality, where multiple consciousnesses share one body
- Dissociative identity disorder, dissociative disorder associated with plurality
- Other specified dissociative disorder, psychiatric diagnosis associated with plurality
Philosophy and religion
- Plurality (church governance), a type of Christian church polity in which decisions are made by a committee
- Plurality of gods, an understanding of God in Mormonism
- Plurality, one of the "twelve pure concepts of the understanding" proposed by Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason
- Ontological pluralism
Other uses
- Plurality (company), an Israeli semiconductor company
- Plurality, the holding of more than one benefice
- Plural, a linguistic form commonly used to denote two or more of something