mollitia or mollitiēs ae, acc. am or em, f mollis, pliability, flexibility, softness: teneritas ac mollitia quaedam.

—Fig., softness, tenderness, weakness, irresolution, effeminacy, voluptuousness, wantonness: animi, T.: viri, S.: naturae, sensitive disposition: animi est ista mollitia, non virtus, weakness, Cs.: civitatum mores lapsi ad mollitias: per mollitiam agere, i. e. indulge oneself, S.: corporis, unchastity, Ta.