Cabbage-hood meaning in the sentence
What is the meaning of cabbage-hood in the following sentence?
When you can know the heady joy of mental action, why would you opt for a lobotomy, for voluntary cabbage-hood?
The 'hood' suffix means being in the state of or having the quality/condition/character of.
'Cabbage', in this case, almost definitely means dim-witted or stupid, referencing either the term cabbagehead (a thick-witted person) or the term "vegetable" for a brain-dead person, or both.
So, cabbage-hood would mean "the state of being extremely dim-witted or stupid"