Examples
“Thanks to the magic of the Oxford English Dictionary and people who write about dictionaries I know that I am experiencing apricity this morning.”
“He has returned from his adventure in the far reaches of the English language with a rich harvest of obscure and forgotten words to share: indispensable gems such as "deipnophobia" (fear of dinner parties) or "apricity" (the warmth of the sun in winter).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘apricity’.
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nouns
enfleurage, fautor, mafia, haslet, chopine, sea-gate, cantillation, formicary, go-devil, Gongorism, mamzer, mazarine and 147 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 more...
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Fun Weather Words
A list of my favorite words relating to weather
apricity, petrichor, almacantar, nimbostratus, diamond dust, squall, updraft, mesolow, thundersnow, wind shear, haar
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Favorites!
These are just cool words. Either they mean something interesting, or they sound neat.
aspidistra, acrimonious, floccinaucinihili..., mulligatawny, avgolemono, lobscouse, lethologica, petrichor, apricity, pamplemousse
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chcste1's list
Beautiful Words
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melissaerb's list
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The Best
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DPE Favs
the warmth of the sun in winter
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My Words
pterodactyl I feel sad when I see "museum pieces" like this word which would be gorgeous words if anyone actually used them. I feel that we ought to smash the glass of the museum display case, snatch the word, and absquatulate with it, then slowly introduce it into the wild and work to establish a breeding population. Jan 8, 2012
ruzuzu *claps hands*
Yay! Okay, so is hernesheir going to create a forgotten linguistic pseudogenes list for us? Dec 22, 2011
hernesheir Perhaps apricity could go on a list of forgotten linguistic pseudogenes.
"The word "theatrophone" is a forgotten linguistic pseudogene, and the word "minidisc" is becoming one" --from the Wordnik examples for theatrophone. Dec 22, 2011
ruzuzu Looks like there are two choices, then. Either it gets the wordie treatment, or you create a new list with more precious, arch, or pompous words for our enjoyment. :-)
Dec 22, 2011
rolig Thanks, ru! But Nancy's citation there simply confirms my point. Ammon Shea (the guy who read the OED), writes about the word: "The OED does not give any citation for its use except for Henry Cockeram's 1623 English Dictionarie." This is a white elephant of a word, a verbal knick-knack: it sits on the shelf and people say, "Oh, how pretty!" but nobody really knows what to do with it except display it as a pretty word. And when you do try to use it (right now, a certain @impropaganda has Tweeted®, "Hope the weather holds for some beautiful southern apricity!") you end up sounding precious, arch, or pompous. Dec 22, 2011
ruzuzu Sounds like it was in that book by that guy who read the entire OED.
Here. This might help:
http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2008/12/word-of-the-week-apricity.html Dec 22, 2011
rolig The fact that all of the examples, and even the Tweets®, merely cite this word and do not use it make me wonder if it is in fact a word that people say (or more likely, write). This seems more like a museum piece than an "actual word". Dec 21, 2011
ruzuzu Thanks, fbharjo. You reminded me that in the city of Geneva, Switzerland, there's an official chestnut tree that is known as the herald of the spring. Dec 20, 2011
fbharjo 'early blooming warmth' as in apricot blossoms. Dec 19, 2011
Lee.courtney990@gmail.com what does that mean????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Dec 19, 2011
ruzuzu I'm glad the sun feels warmth--maybe it should try to concentrate on that feeling the next time it's tempted to flare up at us. Mar 21, 2011
MiketheViking90 the warmth of the sun during winter Mar 21, 2011
livesey The warmth felt by winter sun Oct 8, 2008