vegetarianism

plural vegetarianisms

1. uncountableusuallyThe practice of following a vegetarian diet.

   Vegetarianism, he said, is an idea “that has three things going for it all at once—economics, health and compassion.”

   1975 March 21, Judy Klemesrud, quoting Jean Mayer, “Vegetarianism: Growing Way of Life, Especially Among the Young”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2025

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   What sets her apart from our current ascetics with their practice of transcendental meditation, diet, vegetarianism, ashram simplicities, yoga is that with them the deprivations and rigors‐are undergone for the pay‐off—for tranquility, for thinness, for the hope of a long, life—or frequently, it seems, to fill the hole of emptiness so painful to the narcissist.

   1977 January 23, Elizabeth Hardwick, “A woman of transcendent intellect who assumed the sufferings of humanity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Right now, my family’s special collision of vegetarianism and Judaism necessitates a good bit of chocolate. But when Passover ends, that doesn’t mean we should put the chocolate cake, or the chocolate milk, away.

   2014 April 19, Mark Oppenheimer, “Let Them Drink Chocolate”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022, retrieved 16 Jul 2014

   Synonyms: Pythagoreanism · Antonyms: carnism, nonvegetarianism

plural Vegetarianisms

1. obsoleteuncountableusuallyObsolete spelling of vegetarianism.

   “I must preface this essay by the confession that I am myself a Vegetarian, and that I mean to say all the good I can of the principles of Vegetarianism.”

   1886, Henry Stephens Salt, A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, page 7