MACERATION

bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration

(noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

maceration

(noun) softening due to soaking or steeping

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

maceration (countable and uncountable, plural macerations)

The act or process of macerating.

Anagrams

• aeromantic, cameration, racemation

Source: Wiktionary


Mac`er*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. maceratio: cf. F. macération.]

Definition: The act or process of macerating.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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27 May 2025

DIRECTIONALITY

(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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