Last week, a co-worker mentioned a word she’d read for the first time: apricity, meaning the warmth of the winter sun. This was a new term to me, too, and in the way these things often happen ...

Shortlisted for Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016 ... Now here's something we all appreciate on a frosty morning: “apricity” is a now obsolete word that means “the warmth ...