Meaning & use
pescetarianism
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Meaning
noununcountable
The practice of following a diet that includes fish and seafood but leaves out the flesh of land animals and birds.
Grammar: Used without an or the when naming the diet: pescetarianism is popular here.
Patterns
- follow pescetarianism
- switch to pescetarianism
After years of eating chicken every day, Dana drifted into pescetarianism because she liked salmon too much to give up fish.
Some doctors suggest pescetarianism as a middle path for people who find a fully vegetarian diet hard to keep up.
My brother's pescetarianism makes restaurant menus easy for him, since most places offer at least one seafood dish.
Common combinations
- adopt pescetarianism
- She adopted pescetarianism for health reasons after her checkup.
- switch to pescetarianism
- Many families switch to pescetarianism to cut down on red meat.
- the appeal of pescetarianism
- The appeal of pescetarianism is that it feels flexible but still lighter than a meat-heavy diet.
- strict pescetarianism
- Strict pescetarianism means checking that soups and sauces are not made with meat stock.
- vegetarianism versus pescetarianism
- The debate over vegetarianism versus pescetarianism often centers on whether fish counts as meat.
Synonyms and how they differ
- pescatarianism
- This is simply the more common spelling of the same word, and both are accepted.
- vegetarianism
- It excludes fish as well, so it is stricter than pescetarianism.
- flexitarianism
- A flexitarian mostly avoids meat but eats it now and then, while pescetarianism is a fixed rule that allows only fish.
Opposites
Word family
- pescetarian noun
- a person who follows this diet
- pescetarian adjective
- relating to or suitable for this diet
- pescatarian noun
- alternative spelling of pescetarian
Commonly confused: pescetarianism or vegetarianism?
pescetarianism vs vegetarianism
Vegetarians eat no fish, so the two are not the same; a pescetarian does eat seafood.
Practice
Which person is following pescetarianism?
Choose one answer.
Pescetarianism allows fish and seafood while excluding meat from land animals and birds. The vegetable-and-fruit option describes a stricter plant-based diet, and the beef option is the reverse.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “pescetarianism”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.