heartstrings
(noun) your deepest feelings of love and compassion; “many adoption cases tug at the heartstrings”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
heartstrings pl (plural only)
(obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. [15th-19th c.]
(figuratively) One's deepest emotions or inner feelings. [from 16th c.]
(anatomy) The cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart.
• (cord-like tendons): chorda tendinea/chordae tendineae
Source: Wiktionary
Heart"string`, n.
Definition: A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart. Shak. Sobbing, as if a hearstring broke. Moore.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 June 2025
(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; “bodily needs”; “a corporal defect”; “corporeal suffering”; “a somatic symptom or somatic illness”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
