meatness

English

Etymology

From meat +‎ -ness.

Noun

meatness (uncountable)

1. (rare) The quality of being meat.
   • 2003, Dvora Yanow, Constructing "race" and "ethnicity" in America:

     "Meat" and its contents (beef, Iamb; steak, stew) is at once a single unit whose members share "meatness" and an entity distinct from "milk" and other "non-meatness" categories […]

   • 2009 May 31, Dana Jennings, “Running to Reclaim Your Body”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The meatness of me and the cancer exasperated me and wore me out, so I retreated from my traitorous body.

Anagrams

• tameness