Meatlessness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Absence of meat. uncountable

    "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. 2
    Abstention from meat; vegetarianism. uncountable

    "When Hoover's conservating pen / Cut down our steak and sausage ration / With one accord we cried "AMEN," / And meatlessness became the fashion."

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"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."

Etymology

From meatless + -ness.

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