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mollitude

UK/ˈmɒlɪtjuːd/

mollitude noun: softness; luxuriousness.

Noun

mollitude (uncountable)

  1. (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

mollitude meaning in Bengali

mollitude in Bengali

কোমলতা, বিলাসিতা

Origin of mollitude

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

Questions about mollitude

What does mollitude mean?
Mollitude means softness; luxuriousness.
What is mollitude in Bengali?
Mollitude in Bengali is কোমলতা, বিলাসিতা. See Mollitude meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is mollitude?
Mollitude is a noun.
How do you pronounce mollitude?
Mollitude is pronounced /ˈmɒlɪtjuːd/ (UK).

Words near mollitude in the dictionary

  1. mollishers
  2. mollisol
  3. mollisols
  4. mollities ossium
  5. mollitious
  6. mollitude
  7. molliturbel
  8. molliturbels
  9. Mollo
  10. Mollohan
  11. Mollohans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mollitude (page history and authors); mollitude (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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