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.
SELFISHNESSES
Noun
selfishnesses
plural of selfishness
Source: Wiktionary
SELFISHNESS
Self"ish*ness, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. Selfishness,- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. Sir J. Mackintosh.
Syn.
– See Self-love.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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