In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
PHORESY
Etymology
Noun
phoresy (plural phoresies)
(zoology) An association between two organisms in which one (e.g. a mite) travels on the body of another, without being a parasite.
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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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