Vegetarianism

Quick meaning: Vegetarianism is a noun meaning The practice of following a vegetarian diet.

Meaning

The practice of following a vegetarian diet.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• vegetarianisms

Antonyms for vegetarianism

Common opposites include carnism, nonvegetarianism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dieting, lactovegetarianism, hygienism, yogism, orthopathy, dietology.

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