Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
MUNDANITY
ordinariness, mundaneness, mundanity
(noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary
sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity
(noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
mundanity (countable and uncountable, plural mundanities)
mundaneness; the characteristic of being mundane
Synonyms: ordinariness, plainness, Thesaurus:normality
Source: Wiktionary
Mun*dan"i*ty, n.
Definition: Worldliness. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SPOT
(noun) a small contrasting part of something; “a bald spot”; “a leopard’s spots”; “a patch of clouds”; “patches of thin ice”; “a fleck of red”
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