ORIENCY

Etymology

Noun

oriency (uncountable)

Brightness or strength of colour.

• E. Waterhouse

Source: Wiktionary


O"ri*en*cy, n. Etym: [See Orient.]

Definition: Brightness or strength of color. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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