In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PROPORTIONALITY
proportion, proportionality, balance
(noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); “in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance”- John Ruskin
proportionality
(noun) a ratio of two quantities that is constant
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
proportionality (countable and uncountable, plural proportionalities)
(uncountable) the property of being proportional
(uncountable) the principle that government action ought to be proportional to the ends achieved (e.g. the military should not be deployed to stop petty vandalism)
(countable) the degree to which something is in proportion
Source: Wiktionary
Pro*por`tion*al"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. proportionnalité.]
Definition: The state of being in proportion. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HABIT
(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; “owls have nocturnal habits”; “she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair”; “long use had hardened him to it”
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