meatlessness

English

Etymology

From meatless +‎ -ness.

Noun

meatlessness (uncountable)

  1. Absence of meat.
    • 1998, George Englebretsen, Line Diagrams for Logic: Drawing Conclusions:
      My soup has the positive constitutive property of being carroty, of having carrots in it; of carrotiness; it has the negative constitutive property of lacking meat, of meatlessness.
  2. Abstention from meat; vegetarianism.
    • 1919, Frank Hunter Potter, The Naval Reserve:
      When Hoover's conservating pen / Cut down our steak and sausage ration / With one accord we cried "AMEN," / And meatlessness became the fashion.
    • 1969, Robert Payne, The life and death of Mahatma Gandhi:
      But though Mohandas found himself arguing with his friend in defense of meatlessness, he never seriously contemplated breaking the vow.

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