demitarian
/ˌdɛ.miˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to the type of diet in which meat consumption is reduced to half of what is culturally typical; of or relating to demitarianism.
Example Sentences
- "Nitrogen budget of the agricultural system of the Seine watershed for the current situation (2006) and the organic and local (OrgLoc) and organic, local and demitarian (OrgLocDem) scenarios."
- "Professor Mark Sutton is credited with coining the concept of a demitarian diet, whereby one reduces meat consumption by half in order to stem environmen tal damage associated with meat production."
- "Thus, a group of scientist published the Barsac declaration advocating a “Demitarian diet,” i.e., a reduction by a factor two of the portion of meat and milk in the Western human diet."
- "Such changes in consumption patterns as a consequence of reduced animal protein intake due to adopting a demitarian diet, may amplify or weaken these effects. Building on the work of Westhoek et al. (2014), these authors considered a demitarian scenario, where European meat and dairy intake were halved, linking this also with potential health benefits associated with avoidance of excessive intake."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌdɛ.miˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
- British English: /ˌdɛ.miˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
Inflected Forms
more demitarian (comparative)
most demitarian (superlative)