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vegetarianness

vegetarianness noun: the quality of being vegetarian.

Noun

vegetarianness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being vegetarian.
    • First, let’s look at differences in degree of “vegetarianness.” McDougall advises you to go completely vegan for your normal diet, that is to say he advises a 100% exclusion all animal-based products, including skim milk and egg whites. […] Since there are possible benefits to including small...1998, Steven L. Price, “Eat Right”, in Live Long and Prosper, Needham, Mass.: Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (Live Long), section II (Questions and Answers), page 41
    • Non-vegetarianness and vegetarianness are also significant qualities of food from a ritual perspective. In both the varldāv and devr Kotas make offerings of boiled millet, vatm kū, in a ritual called eṛ vecd. The difference between this ritual in the dry funeral and god ceremony depends on what is...2005, Richard K[ent] Wolf, “Affect and Subject”, in The Black Cow’s Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India, Delhi: Permanent Black, →ISBN, page 181

Examples of vegetarianness in a sentence

  • Non-vegetarianness and vegetarianness are also significant qualities of food from a ritual perspective.2005, Richard K[ent] Wolf, “Affect and Subject”, in The Black Cow’s Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South...
  • When I had made inquiries into the vegetarianness of the vegetarian spring rolls, they had sworn on a stack of Qur’ans that they were 100% meat-free.2010, Carolyn A. Thériault, “My Life as a Leopard”, in Stealing Fatima’s Hand, Kfar Sava; Toronto, Ont.: Vox Humana Books, →ISBN, page 75:
  • Adding to the lack of vegetarian identity some business owners are purposely “deflecting attention away from a product’s vegetarianness . . . to avoid the dreaded pitfall of ‘veg-phobia.’”2010, Laura K. Hahn, quoting the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, “I’m Too Sexy for Your Movement: An Analysis of the Failure of the Animal Rights...
  • This is not an African phenomenon, this vegetarianness.2010 October, Daryl Cloran, Mbulelo Grootboom, Deborah Hay, David Jansen, Holly Lewis, Michelle Monteith, Andile Nebulane, “The Library”...

Origin of vegetarianness

From vegetarian + -ness.

Questions about vegetarianness

What does vegetarianness mean?
Vegetarianness means the quality of being vegetarian.
How do you use vegetarianness in a sentence?
Non-vegetarianness and vegetarianness are also significant qualities of food from a ritual perspective.
What part of speech is vegetarianness?
Vegetarianness is a noun.

Words near vegetarianness in the dictionary

  1. vegetarianize
  2. vegetarianized
  3. vegetarianizes
  4. vegetarianizing
  5. vegetarianly
  6. vegetarianness
  7. vegetarians
  8. vegetary
  9. vegetate
  10. vegetated
  11. vegetates

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