pluralist vs progressive

progressive vs pluralist

pluralist and progressive both are nouns.

pluralist is not an adjective while progressive is an adjective.

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

As nouns, progressive is a hypernym of pluralist; that is, progressive 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
progressive: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

Other hypernyms of pluralist include liberal, liberalist.

pluralist (noun)	progressive (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 tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time

pluralist (adjective)	progressive (adjective)
	favoring or promoting progress
	(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
	advancing in severity
	gradually advancing in extent
	favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
	(of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position

Difference between pluralist and progressive

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