liking

[likĀ·ing]

A feeling of pleasure and enjoyment

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Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look.

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


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Like

p. a.
Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look.

n.
The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below.

n.
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.

n.
Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition.


Liking

Lik"ing , 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 ?

Liking

Lik"ing, n. 1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below. [Obs. or Prov. End.] 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.
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.
Their young ones are in good liking.
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 ?

Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look.

The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below.

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Usage Examples

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

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