In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MUDDINESS
cloudiness, murkiness, muddiness
(noun) the quality of being cloudy
confusion, mental confusion, confusedness, muddiness, disarray
(noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior; “a confusion of impressions”
wateriness, muddiness, sloppiness
(noun) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water; “the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield”; “the water’s muddiness made it undrinkable”; “the sloppiness of a rainy November day”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
muddiness (usually uncountable, plural muddinesses)
The characteristic of being muddy.
Source: Wiktionary
Mud"di*ness, n.
1. The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness casued by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.
2. Obscurity or confusion, as in treatment of a subject; intellectual dullness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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