In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
RECENCIES
Noun
recencies
plural of recency
Source: Wiktionary
RECENCY
Re"cen*cy, n. Etym: [LL. recentia, fr. L. recens. See Recent.]
Definition: The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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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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