LIKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liking mean? 

• LIKING (noun)
  The noun LIKING has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment

  Familiarity information: LIKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of pleasure and enjoyment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

she developed a liking for gin

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)

 Context examples 

Oh, dear, I'm so sorry, for you'll get to liking it better and better, and will waste time and money, and grow like those dreadful boys.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Not liking to sit in the cold and darkness, I thought I would lie down on my bed, dressed as I was.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am very glad to hear it indeed, and now I shall never be ashamed of liking Udolpho myself.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And as to Captain Wentworth's liking Louisa as well as Henrietta, it is nonsense to say so; for he certainly does like Henrietta a great deal the best.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But I had no particular liking, that I could discover, for anything.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The new arrangement was quite to my liking.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Settle the matter to your own liking.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As soon as they had satisfied themselves, they put out the lights, and each once more sought out a resting-place to his own liking.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Fanny, not liking to complain, found it easiest to make no answer; and though he looked at her with his usual kindness, she believed he had soon ceased to think of her countenance.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

— There is no great wonder in their liking one another; but that matters should be brought so forward between them, and nobody suspect it!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)