different between delicacy vs delicately

English

From Middle English delicacie, from Middle English delicat, from Latin delicatus.

delicacy (countable and uncountable, plural delicacies)

The quality of being delicate.
Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
Frailty of health or fitness.
Refinement in taste or discrimination.
Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.

delicate +? -ly

delicately (comparative more delicately, superlative most delicately)

In a delicate manner; exquisitely.
The gingerbread was delicately, if imprecisely, captured by the brushstrokes.
Tactfully.
He approached the main subject delicately.

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