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LIKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A feeling of pleasure and enjoyment
Example:
she developed a liking for gin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("liking" is a kind of...):
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liking"):
fancy; fondness; partiality (a predisposition to like something)
captivation; enchantment; enthrallment; fascination (a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual)
penchant; predilection; preference; taste (a strong liking)
mysophilia (abnormal attraction to filth)
inclination (that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking)
friendliness (a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company)
approval (a feeling of liking something or someone good)
admiration; esteem (a feeling of delighted approval and liking)
Antonym:
dislike (a feeling of aversion or antipathy)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb like
Context examples:
Perhaps it will be wisest in you to check your feelings while you can: at any rate do not let them carry you far, unless you are persuaded of his liking you.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Few things could have been more to their liking than to give him a tow over the side, for to the forecastle he had sent messes and concoctions of the vilest order.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Had Lip-lip not existed, he would have passed his puppyhood with the other puppies and grown up more doglike and with more liking for dogs.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
We had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he roused himself from his reverie.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They disagreed about love, and the magazines, and many things, but they liked each other, and on Martin's part it was no less than a profound liking.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The report isn't to their liking, that's for sure.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
It was evident that he shared our host’s liking for the fresh Alexandrian cigarettes.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A positive feeling of liking.
(Affection, NCI Thesaurus)
On reaching the spacious lobby above they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room when last at Pemberley.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
To go petting Papa and helping you, just to wheedle you into liking him.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
