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meatness

meatness noun: the quality of being meat.

Noun

meatness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being meat.
    • "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
    • 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

Origin of meatness

From meat + -ness.

Questions about meatness

What does meatness mean?
Meatness means the quality of being meat.
What part of speech is meatness?
Meatness is a noun.

Words near meatness in the dictionary

  1. meatloaves
  2. meatman
  3. meatmeal
  4. meatmeals
  5. meatmen
  6. meatness
  7. meato-
  8. meatometer
  9. meatometers
  10. meatoplasty
  11. meatoscope

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