vegetarianism

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)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.”

   “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. (alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually)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.””