In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
THORNINESS
bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness
(noun) a rough and bitter manner
prickliness, bristliness, spininess, thorniness
(noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
thorniness (usually uncountable, plural thorninesses)
The property of being thorny (of having thorns or metaphorically being difficult).
Anagrams
• Hornsteins
Source: Wiktionary
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AUDACIOUS
(adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation; “audacious explorers”; “fearless reporters and photographers”; “intrepid pioneers”
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