Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sweetness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Sweetness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Sweetness
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dulcitude.
Examples
-
Yawn in a semiswoon lay awailing and (hooh!) what helpings of honeyful swoothead (phew!), which ear-piercing dulcitude!
Finnegans Wake 2006
-
It is true that нега has two distinct nuances: voluptuous languor and simple enjoyment; but, instead of using any of the obvious equivalents, Mr. Nabokov has dug up from the dictionary the rare and obsolete mollitude, a word which his readers can never have encountered but which he uses for the first of these meanings; and for the second he has discovered dulcitude.
The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov Wilson, Edmund 1965
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.