delice means Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
DELICE — [Noun] A refined delight or pleasure, particularly of a sensual or luxurious character. From Old French delice, from Latin dēlicium (“delight, pleasure, luxury”). Unlike “joy,” which implies a profound, often spiritual ascent, or “luxury,” which denotes an objective condition of sumptuous comfort, delice is the exquisite, subjective tremor of sensation harvested from the luxurious. It is the warmth of sun-heated stone against bare skin, the decadent slide of silk against sun-warmed shoulders, or the fragrant stillness of a garden after rain—a fleeting, mortal pleasure that is beautiful precisely because it cannot last.
noun
- Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.“he has pourd out his idle mind / In daintie delices, and lauish ioyes […]”
verb
- To rid of lice.“Every year, as a fixed ritual just before the spring break, the school held a delicing day.”