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meatlessness en · NOUN

Etymology

From meatless + -ness.

Meanings

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