Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
LATENCY
latency
(noun) the state of being not yet evident or active
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
latency (countable and uncountable, plural latencies)
The state of being latent.
(electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
(medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
Synonyms
• (state of being latent): hiddenness, invisibility
• lag (not physics- or electronic gaming-related)
• delay
Anagrams
• Cantley
Source: Wiktionary
La"ten*cy, n. Etym: [See Latent.]
Definition: The state or quality of being latent. To simplify the discussion, I shall distinguish three degrees of this latency. Sir W. Hamilton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTUITIVELY
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