There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
DRUNKENNESSES
Noun
drunkennesses
plural of drunkenness
Source: Wiktionary
DRUNKENNESS
Drunk"en*ness, n.
1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts.
2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South.
Syn.
– Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety.
– Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. "This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success." Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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