mollitude
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin mollitūdō, from mollis (“soft”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mollitude (uncountable)
- (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.