mollitude

noun

noun

UK /ˈmɒlɪtjuːd/

Etymology From Latin mollitūdō, from mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, Latin moll- + -itude.

Archaic Softness; luxuriousness.

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

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