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meatness en · NOUN

Etymology

From meat + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The quality of being meat.
    • The meatness of me and the cancer exasperated me and wore me out, so I retreated from my traitorous body. 2009 May 31, Dana Jennings, “Running to Reclaim Your Body”, in New York Times:
    • "Meat" and its contents (beef, Iamb; steak, stew) is at once a single unit whose members share "meatness" and an entity distinct from "milk" and other "non-meatness" categories […] 2003, Dvora Yanow, Constructing "race" and "ethnicity" in America: