Apricity the warmness of the sun in winter.

A friend told me about a new word, apricity – “It means the sunshine on a cold winter day. Something like that.” Later I looked for the word in my Merriam-Webster dictionary. It wasn’t there. The words went from from apre’-ski to apricot but no apricity. I searched online and discovered, Yes, there is a word apricity, a rare word that was first recorded in 1623 by Henry Cockeram. he said the word meant the warmness of the sun in winter.