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Liking Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Liking? [n] a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Liking: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Liking: a thing for \| admiration \| adoration \| affection \| affinity \| agape \| Amor \| animus \| appetence \| appetency \| appetite \| appreciation \| aptitude \| aptness \| ardency \| ardor \| attachment \| bent \| bias \| bodily love \| brotherly love \| caritas \| cast \| charity \| choice \| Christian love \| command \| conation \| conatus \| conduciveness \| conjugal love \| crush \| decision \| delight \| desire \| determination \| devotion \| diathesis \| discretion \| disposition \| eagerness \| Eros \| eye \| faithful love \| fancy \| feeling for \| fervor \| flame \| fondness \| free choice \| free love \| free will \| free-lovism \| gust \| gusto \| heart \| hero worship \| idolatry \| idolism \| idolization \| inclination \| infatuation \| intention \| lasciviousness \| leaning \| liability \| libido \| like \| likes \| love \| lovemaking \| lust \| married love \| mind \| objective \| partiality \| passion \| penchant \| physical love \| Platonic love \| pleasure \| popular regard \| popularity \| predilection \| predisposition \| preference \| prejudice \| probability \| proclivity \| proneness \| propensity \| readiness \| regard \| relish \| resolution \| sensitivity to \| sentiment \| sex \| sexual desire \| sexual love \| shine \| soft \| soft spot \| spiritual love \| susceptibility \| taste \| tendency \| tender feeling \| tender passion \| tropism \| truelove \| turn \| twist \| uxoriousness \| velleity \| volition \| warp \| weakness \| will \| will power \| willingness \| wish \| worship \| yearning See Also \| admiration \| approval \| captivation \| enchantment \| enthrallment \| esteem \| fancy \| fascination \| feeling \| fondness \| friendliness \| inclination \| mysophilia \| partiality \| penchant \| predilection \| preference \| taste Liking In Webster's Dictionary \Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[i^]ng), p. a. Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See {Like}, to look. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort ? --Dan. i. 10. \Lik"ing\, n. 1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See {On liking}, below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 2. The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for. If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support. --Bacon. 3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition. [Archaic] I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking. --Shak. Their young ones are in good liking. --Job. xxxix. 4. {On liking}, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting; also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance ? --Hazlitt.

Liking Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Liking?

[n] a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Liking:

Liking In Webster's Dictionary

\Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[i^]ng), p. a.
Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See {Like},
to look. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

      Why should he see your faces worse liking than the
      children which are of your sort ?        --Dan. i. 10.


\Lik"ing\, n.
1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See {On liking},
   below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

2. The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some
   thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure;
   preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is
   an amusement I have no liking for.

         If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to
         any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into
         harmony with that doctrine, and to its support.
                                               --Bacon.

3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or
   condition. [Archaic]

         I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I
         have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
                                               --Shak.

         Their young ones are in good liking.  --Job. xxxix.
                                               4.

{On liking}, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting;
   also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a
   place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking.
   [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

         Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line
         . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance ?
                                               --Hazlitt.

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