Why this word is great
SPRINGTIDE — [Noun] The season of spring, conceived as a potent and fleeting period, charged with poetic transformation. From Middle English spring (the season of spring, a source of water, a leap) + -tide (time, period). Unlike the neutral "springtime," a simple calendrical marker, or the literal "spring tide," a predictable lunar event, springtide evokes the season's climactic surge of feeling. It is the heady scent of hawthorn blooming overnight, the sudden irruption of birdsong at dawn, and the brief, perfect stillness of an orchard in full blossom—an annual, beautiful argument that crescendos contain the beginning of their own diminuendo.