SUDDENNESS

abruptness, precipitateness, precipitousness, precipitance, precipitancy, suddenness

(noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

suddenness (usually uncountable, plural suddennesses)

The state of being sudden.

Synonyms

• abruptness, subitaneousness; see also suddenness

Source: Wiktionary



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15 January 2025

BEAR

(verb) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices; “She bears the title of Duchess”; “He held the governorship for almost a decade”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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