here's another of those mystery words..

epicaricacy can be found in Mrs. Byrne's dictionary, defined as 'taking pleasure in others' misfortune'--an actual English synonym for schadenfreude?! but I haven't found it anywhere else (except for those online lists that parrot Mrs. B.), or been able to discover anything about its etymology.

a connection to epicarican (An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps -Webster's 1913) seems tenuous.