An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
POIGNANCY
pathos, poignancy
(noun) a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); “the film captured all the pathos of their situation”
poignance, poignancy
(noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow; “a moment of extraordinary poignancy”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
poignancy (usually uncountable, plural poignancies)
The quality of being poignant
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Source: Wiktionary
Poign"an*cy, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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