veganism
noun
veganism is a noun meaning “A way of life which strictly avoids animal products and services involving the use of living animals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-G-A-N-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of veganism is veganisms.
What does veganism mean?
noun
- 1
A way of life which strictly avoids animal products and services involving the use of living animals.
- 2
Strict vegetarianism; the practice of eating neither meat nor other animal products, such as fish, milk and milk products, eggs, and honey.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce veganism?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-veganism.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of veganism
- veganisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is veganism?
Veganism appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,663rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Veganism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | véganisme, végétalisme |
| German | Veganismus |
| Portuguese | veganismo |
| Spanish | veganismo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.