In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
INSENSIBILITIES
Noun
insensibilities
plural of insensibility
Source: Wiktionary
INSENSIBILITY
In*sen`si*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. insensibilité.]
1. The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.
2. Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.
Syn.
– Dullness; numbness; unfeelingness; stupidity; torpor; apathy; impassiveness; indifference.
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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