meatlessness

noun — 2 senses

meatlessness

noun

Etymology From meatless + -ness.

1

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

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:

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