In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
REMOTENESS
aloofness, remoteness, standoffishness, withdrawnness
(noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner
farness, remoteness, farawayness
(noun) the property of being remote
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
remoteness (countable and uncountable, plural remotenesses)
The quality of being remote.
Anagrams
• merestones
Source: Wiktionary
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26 January 2025
NEGLECT
(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
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