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meat +‎ -ness

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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.

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