vegetativeness

adjective

1. 1. of vegetation, or plants
   2. of or concerned with vegetation, or plant growth
2. growing, or capable of growing, as plants
3. designating or of those functions or parts of plants concerned with growth and nutrition as distinguished from reproduction
4. capable of causing growth in plants; fertile: vegetative material
5. vegetational
6. involuntary or passive like the growth of plants; showing little mental activity: a vegetative existence
7. Zool. of or pertaining to reproduction by budding or other asexual method