Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
GRIMNESS
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
(noun) something hard to endure; “the asperity of northern winters”
ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness, luridness
(noun) the quality of being ghastly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
grimness (usually uncountable, plural grimnesses)
The characteristic or quality of being grim.
Source: Wiktionary
Grim"ness, n. Etym: [AS. grimnes.]
Definition: Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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