In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TENUITY
feebleness, tenuity
(noun) the quality of lacking intensity or substance; “a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice”- Nathaniel Hawthorne
rarity, tenuity, low density
(noun) a rarified quality; “the tenuity of the upper atmosphere”
thinness, tenuity, slenderness
(noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; “the tenuity of a hair”; “the thinness of a rope”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tenuity (usually uncountable, plural tenuities)
Thinness, slenderness.
Meagreness, paucity.
Source: Wiktionary
Te*nu"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. tenuitas, from tenuis thin: cf. F. ténuité. See Tenuous.]
1. The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.
2. Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood. Bacon.
3. Poverty; indigence. [Obs.] Eikon Basilike.
4. Refinement; delicacy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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