An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
EREMITIC
anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical
(adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude; “the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony”; “his hermitic existence”
eremitic, eremitical
(adjective) of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living; “eremitic austerities”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
eremitic (comparative more eremitic, superlative most eremitic)
Characteristic of a hermit
Source: Wiktionary
Er`e*mit"ic, Er`e*mit"ic*al, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude. "An eremitical life in the woods." Fuller. "The eremitic instinct." Lowell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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