different between meatless vs meatness

English

From Middle English meteles, from Old English metel?as (“foodless”), equivalent to meat +? -less.

meatless (not comparable)

Without meat.
- 1916, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
  A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation.
- 1942, Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, vol. 4 of The Second World War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), p. 300. [Memo from Prime Minister Churchill to General Ismay dated April 3, 1942]
  Are we to understand from paragraph 1 (c) that [the residents of Malta] are entirely meatless? or have they cattle they can kill, and if so how many?

meat +? -ness

meatness (uncountable)

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