In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ECTOPY
Etymology
Noun
ectopy (countable and uncountable, plural ectopies)
(pathology) Abnormal position of an organ or other body part.
Synonyms: dystopia, ectopia, heterotopia, malposition
Anagrams
• cotype
Source: Wiktionary
Ec"to*py, n. (Med.)
Definition: Same as Ectopia.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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