英和和英

名詞

meatlessness (uncountable)

1. Absence of meat.
   • 1998, George Englebretsen, Line Diagrams for Logic: Drawing Conclusions:

     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.

2. Abstention from meat; vegetarianism.
   • 1919, Frank Hunter Potter, The Naval Reserve:

     When Hoover's conservating pen / Cut down our steak and sausage ration / With one accord we cried "AMEN," / And meatlessness became the fashion.

   • 1969, Robert Payne, The life and death of Mahatma Gandhi:

     But though Mohandas found himself arguing with his friend in defense of meatlessness, he never seriously contemplated breaking the vow.

アナグラム

• matelessness, tamelessness, teamlessness