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.
RAWNESS
inexperience, rawness
(noun) lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience; “procedural inexperience created difficulties”; “their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops”
tenderness, soreness, rawness
(noun) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); “the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness”; “after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on”
incompleteness, rawness
(noun) the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect; “the study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it stimulated further research”; “the rawness of his diary made it unpublishable”
rawness
(noun) a chilly dampness; “the rawness of the midnight air”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rawness (countable and uncountable, plural rawnesses)
The property of being raw.
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Source: Wiktionary
Raw"ness, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being raw.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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THOUGHTFULLY
(adverb) showing consideration and thoughtfulness; “he had thoughtfully brought with him some food to share”
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