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likeability

noun

Etymology

From like + -ability.

  1. derived from *galīkaz✻ — “same, like, similar”
  2. inherited from *galīkê✻
  3. derived from líka — “also, likewise”
  4. inherited from ġelīċe — “likewise, also, as, in like manner, similarly”
  5. inherited from like
  6. inherited from *galīkaz✻ — “like, similar, same”
  7. derived from líkr
  8. inherited from ġelīċ
  9. inherited from lik
  10. suffixed as likeability — “like + ability”

Definitions

  1. The property that makes a person likeable, that allows them to be liked.

    • Attractiveness and likeability isn't simply a matter of sexual desirability.
    • Perhaps the most striking result of this study was that a simple advertising likeability scale predicted sales winners 87% of the time.
    • In the category condition. participants (1) guessed the targets' academic majors and (2) rated their likeability.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA