Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being vegetative, in any sense.
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Examples
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Your favorite exterminator and mine, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, "apologized" yesterday for threatening federal judges because they refused to prolong Terri Schiavo's persistent vegetativeness.
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Yesterday I reached a state of vegetativeness not seen since high school days.
outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2002
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It’s subtly mandarin, and you can still taste the green tea’s vegetativeness through it.
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It’s subtly mandarin, and you can still taste the green tea’s vegetativeness through it.
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Still, she sends Grey off to order a CT just to confirm the patient’s general vegetativeness.
grey’s anatomy recap : gratitude as an excuse for turkey (season 2, episode 9) | Seattle Metblogs 2005
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Dear Mr. Hemsley, ” You are aware that Patrick Geddes proposes to exclude Natural Selection in the origination of thorns and spines, which he imputes to “diminishing vegetativeness” or “ebbing vitality of the species.”
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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