Liking

liking
    n 1: a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a
         liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin" [ant:
         {dislike}]
    

Like \Like\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Liked} (l[imac]kt); p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Liking}.] [OE. liken to please, AS. l[imac]cian,
   gel[imac]cian, fr. gel[imac]c. See {Like}, a.]
   1. To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.]
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            Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there.
                                                  --R. of
                                                  Gloucester.
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            I willingly confess that it likes me much better
            when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am
            bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. --Sir
                                                  P. Sidney.
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   2. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to
      take satisfaction in; to enjoy.
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            He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking
            to loving.                            --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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   3. To liken; to compare. [Obs.]
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            Like me to the peasant boys of France. --Shak.
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Liking \Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[i^]ng), p. a.
   Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See {Like},
   to look. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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         Why should he see your faces worse liking than the
         children which are of your sort?         --Dan. i. 10.
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Liking \Lik"ing\, n.
   1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See {On liking},
      below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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   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.
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            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.
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   3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or
      condition. [Archaic]
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            I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I
            have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
                                                  --Shak.
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            Their young ones are in good liking.  --Job. xxxix.
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   {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.]
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            Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line
            . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance?
                                                  --Hazlitt.
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124 Moby Thesaurus words for "liking":
      Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, a thing for, admiration,
      adoration, affection, affinity, agape, animus, appetence,
      appetency, appetite, appreciation, aptitude, aptness, ardency,
      ardor, attachment, bent, bias, bodily love, brotherly love,
      caritas, cast, charity, choice, command, conation, conatus,
      conduciveness, conjugal love, crush, decision, delight, desire,
      determination, devotion, diathesis, discretion, disposition,
      eagerness, 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, 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