mollitude

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin mollitūdō, from mollis (soft).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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.