Meanings
Synonyms & antonyms
nounquality of being delicious
Origin
- Middle Frenchdelicieuseté
- Middle Englishdelicissite
- Englishdeliciosity
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.
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