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View synonyms for liking

liking

[ lahy-king ]

noun

  1. preference, inclination, or favor:

    to show a liking for privacy.

    Synonyms: affection, fondness, partiality, predilection, propensity, leaning

    Antonyms: antipathy

  2. pleasure or taste:

    much to his liking.

  3. the state or feeling of a person who likes. like.


liking

/ ˈlaɪkɪŋ /

noun

  1. the feeling of a person who likes; fondness
  2. a preference, inclination, or pleasure


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Other Words From

  • over·liking noun
  • self-liking adjective noun
  • under·liking noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of liking1

before 900; Middle English; Old English līcung. See like 2, -ing 1

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Example Sentences

And with stand-ups, I remember liking George Carlin and Steve Martin.

“Most people are focused on the holidays anyway,” she continued, before adding something about people liking Cuban sandwiches.

Actually for Conte, who has a passionate aversion to labeling, that may be a bit too much categorization for his liking.

You see, Nolan had been suspended from work hours before the crime for comments about “not liking white people.”

Her T-shirts, which hang on the walls, were—I am told—originally hung too low for her liking, and too unevenly.

Liking for a single colour is a considerably smaller display of mind than an appreciation of the relation of two colours.

Who could have believed that only a fortnight ago these same figures were clean as new pins; smart and well-liking!

I did not perceive that they had any great liking to them at first, neither did they seem to admire anything that we had.

Well, I am glad, for no more can I. I can't think of her liking for papa and baby and all of us to be left to ourselves.

His tie with her was slight, her husband, a clergyman, little to his liking; he had not been near them for several years.

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