mollitude

English

Etymology

From Latin mollitūdō, from mollis (“soft”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɒlɪtjuːd/

Noun

mollitude (uncountable)

  1. (now rare) Softness; luxuriousness.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2001, page 274:
      I have frequented bordels since my sixteenth year, but […] nothing about them pre-announced the luxury and mollitude of my first Villa Venus.
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