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Liking

noun

A feeling of pleasure and enjoyment. "She developed a liking for gin" Antonym: dislike.

verb

(past & past part. liked; pres. part. liking)

Prefer or wish to do something. Synonyms: care, wish. "Would you like to come along to the movies?"

Find enjoyable or agreeable. "She likes to read Russian novels" Antonym: dislike.

Be fond of.

Feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard.

Want to have.

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... all liking the atmosphere of his mother's room, Tom, being once in the kitchen, felt no inclination to return. His first work there, after delivering his message to Jane, was to ...

— Home Scenes, and Home Influence - A Series of Tales and Sketches • T. S. Arthur

... public is very much more interested in matter than in form, and it is for this very reason that it is behindhand in any high degree of culture. It is most laughable the way the public reveals its liking for matter in poetic works; it carefully investigates the real events or personal circumstances of the poet's life which served to give the motif of his works; nay, finally, it finds these more interesting than the works themselves; it reads more about Goethe than what has been ...

— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer

... after the war led to a proposition to expel from the club all members belonging to that country; and it was only the liking and sympathy felt for one of them, Baron Schickler, a very wealthy lover of the turf and for a long time resident in France, which caused a rejection of the motion. Baron Schickler, however, has nominally retired from the turf since 1870, and ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various

... had been a carpenter, he said he was a bridge-builder of Trieste, and he said, "I wish I was back at it; it is more to my liking to build things than to ...

— Three Times and Out • Nellie L. McClung

... any longer, captain, as you will be anxious to see the bales disposed of to your liking on the barge." ...

— The Sword Maker • Robert Barr

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