In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
INADVERTENCY
unmindfulness, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency
(noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
inadvertency (plural inadvertencies)
inadvertence or heedlessness
Source: Wiktionary
In`ad*vert"ence; pl. -ces (, In`ad*vert"en*cy; pl. -cies (, n. Etym: [Cf. F. inadvertance.]
1. The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence. Inadvertency, or want of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers. Jer. Taylor.
2. An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence. The productions of a great genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact. Addison.
Syn.
– Inattention; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence; thoughtlessness. See Inattention.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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