In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SPECIOUSNESS
speciousness, meretriciousness
(noun) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; “the speciousness of his argument”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
speciousness (countable and uncountable, plural speciousnesses)
(uncountable) The state or quality of being specious.
(countable, rare) The result or product of being specious.
Source: Wiktionary
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AWRY
(adjective) not functioning properly; “something is amiss”; “has gone completely haywire”; “something is wrong with the engine”
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