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vegetarianism

noun
/vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ənɪzəm/US/vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ənɪzəm/UK

Etymology

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

  1. derived from vegetābilis — “able to live and grow”
  2. derived from vegetable
  3. inherited from vegetable
  4. suffixed as vegetarian — “vegetable + -arian”
  5. suffixed as vegetarianism — “vegetarian + -ism”

Definitions

  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.”
    • 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.

  2. Obsolete 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.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for vegetarianism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA