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- uncountableAbsence 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 - uncountableAbstention from meat; vegetarianism.
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 Gandhi1 more example
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
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