Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
OUGHTNESS
Etymology
Noun
oughtness (countable and uncountable, plural oughtnesses)
(chiefly, philosophy) In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.
(rare) The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.
(rare) The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.
Anagrams
• toughness
Source: Wiktionary
Ought"ness, n.
Definition: The state of being as a thing ought to be; rightness. [R.] N. W. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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