Why this word is great
CALESCE — [Verb] To undergo calescence; to become or grow warm; to heat up; to glow with heat. From Latin calescere, inchoative of calēre ("to be warm"). Unlike "ignite" (which implies a sudden, often violent onset) or "scorch" (which connotes damage), "calesce" is the patient accumulation of warmth—the slow blush of a stone in the sun, the steady rise of steam from a teacup, or the way a hand, held too long against a lover’s cheek, forgets where its own heat ends and another’s begins. A gentle reminder that warmth, too, is a kind of time.