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Vinony

vegetarianism

noun

  1. practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ənɪzəm/ / /vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ənɪzəm/

noun

Etymology: Attested since circa 1847, when the British Vegetarian Society was founded. From vegetarian + -ism.

  1. The 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.””

    “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.”