The story
- Middle French · derived fromdelicieuseté
- Middle English · inherited fromdelicissite
- English todaydeliciosity
From Middle English delicissite, deliciouste, deliciuste, diliciousite (“delightfulness; of food: deliciousness; a luxury”), from Middle French delicieuseté (compare Medieval Latin dēliciōsitās) or formed within English from delicious + -osity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.