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Deliciousness

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de·li·cious  (d-lshs)
adj.
1. Highly pleasing or agreeable to the senses, especially of taste or smell.
2. Very pleasant; delightful: a delicious revenge.
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin dlicisus, pleasing, from Latin dlicia, pleasure : d-, intensive pref.; see de- + lacere, to entice.]
de·licious·ly adv.
de·licious·ness n.
Synonyms: delicious, ambrosial, delectable, luscious, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy
These adjectives mean very pleasing to the sense of taste: a delicious pâté; ambrosial fruit salad; delectable raspberries; luscious chocolate bonbons; a scrumptious peach; a toothsome apple; yummy fudge.
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Noun1.Deliciousnessdeliciousness - extreme appetizingness
delectability, lusciousness, toothsomeness
appetisingness, appetizingness - the property of stimulating the appetite
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This, then, was the end of it all--of the carpets, and furniture, and the little rented house; of the meetings and walking out, the thrilling nights of starshine, the deliciousness of surrender, the loving and the being loved.
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And eternal delight and deliciousness will be his, who coming to lay him down, can say with his final breath --O Father
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