aprication

/æpɹɪˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology

From apricate + -ion.

aprication means The act of apricating, or basking in the sun. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

APRICATION — [Noun] The deliberate, idle act of basking in the sun. From the Latin apricus ("sunny, exposed to the sun") + the English suffix -ion (denoting an action or process). Unlike heliotherapy, which prescribes sunlight as a medicinal regimen, or insolation, which measures solar radiation with clinical detachment, aprication is a voluntary, sensuous surrender. It is the slow, patient stretch of a cat on a windowsill, the profound stillness of a lizard on a rock, and the drowsy, unfocused pleasure of a body in a deckchair—a quiet, metabolic argument against the chill and shadow of the interior world.

noun

The act of apricating, or basking in the sun.“Aprication, a beaking in the sunne."”