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meatlessness

meatlessness noun: absence of meat.

Noun

meatlessness (uncountable)

  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

Origin of meatlessness

From meatless + -ness.

Questions about meatlessness

What does meatlessness mean?
Meatlessness means absence of meat.
What part of speech is meatlessness?
Meatlessness is a noun.

Words near meatlessness in the dictionary

  1. meatless
  2. meatless loaf
  3. meatless loaves
  4. meatlessloaf
  5. meatlessly
  6. meatlessness
  7. meatlike
  8. meatloaf
  9. meatloafy
  10. meatloaves
  11. meatman

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