In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
ALTERITY
Noun
alterity (countable and uncountable, plural alterities)
(philosophy, anthropology) Otherness; the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed.
Source: Wiktionary
Al*ter"i*ty, n. Etym: [F. altérité.]
Definition: The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. [R.] For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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