See Also: well-liking(medicine)
liking(dictionary)
liking(dictionary)

liking (iou)



liking noun. OE.
[from LIKE verb1 + -ING1.]
The fact of being to one's taste or of being liked. OE-L16.
Pleasure, enjoyment; an instance of this; spec. sensuality, sexual desire. ME-E18.
The bent of the will; what one wishes or prefers, (a person's) pleasure. Now rare exc. in to one's liking below. ME.
on liking, upon liking (now rare) on approval or trial. to one's liking according to one's wish, to one's taste.
The condition of being fond of or not averse to a person or thing; favourable regard, a fondness, a taste, a fancy. (Foll. by for, to a person.) ME.
A. Koestler Sympathy for his own body, for which usually he had no liking, played over him. E. Ferrars He's too stiff and prickly for my liking. R. Whelan Capa and Dinah took an immediate liking to him.
Bodily condition, esp. good or healthy condition. ME-M18.
An object liked, (one's) beloved. LME-M17.