pluralist vs liberal

liberal vs pluralist

pluralist and liberal both are nouns.

pluralist is not an adjective while liberal is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pluralist	Yes	No	No	No
liberal	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, liberal is a hypernym of pluralist; that is, liberal is a word with a broader meaning than pluralist:

pluralist: someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
liberal: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

Other hypernyms of pluralist include liberalist, progressive.

pluralist (noun)	liberal (noun)
someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society	a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature	a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets
a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time

pluralist (adjective)	liberal (adjective)
	tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
	showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
	given or giving freely
	not literal
	having political or social views favoring reform and progress

Difference between pluralist and liberal

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