Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
LURIDNESS
ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness, luridness
(noun) the quality of being ghastly
lividness, lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness, achromasia
(noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
sensationalism, luridness
(noun) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; “the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
luridness (uncountable)
The property of being lurid.
The luridness of the author's descriptions turned off the critics.
Source: Wiktionary
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PRESCRIPTIVE
(adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules; “prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage”
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