Why this word is great
EMPYROSIS — [Noun] A general fire; a conflagration. From Ancient Greek ἐν (en, "in") + πῦρ (pyr, "fire") + -ωσις (-ōsis, "condition or action"), literally "a state of being in fire". Unlike "combustion" (which dissects the chemical dance of oxidation) or "incendiarism" (which accuses human malice), empyrosis is the fire as event, as spectacle, as obliterating force. It is the wildfire licking the horizon like a second dawn, the warehouse collapsing inward in a sigh of sparks, the library’s irreplaceable pages curling to black ash—the way all things, given time, return to heat and light.