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.