Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
INDIFFERENCY
Etymology
Noun
indifferency (usually uncountable, plural indifferencies)
(obsolete) Impartiality, fairness, disinterestedness.
(obsolete) A lack of strong feeling; indifference.
Source: Wiktionary
In*dif"fer*en*cy, n.
Definition: Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference. Gladstone. To give ourselves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause. Fuller. Moral liberty . . . does not, after all, consist in a power of indifferency, or in a power of choosing without regard to motives. Hazlitt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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