'Liking' definitions:

Definition of 'liking'

(from WordNet)
noun
A feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin" [ant: dislike]

Definition of 'Liking'

From: GCIDE
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there. --R. of Gloucester. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy. [1913 Webster]
  • He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To liken; to compare. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Like me to the peasant boys of France. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Liking'

From: GCIDE
  • Liking \Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[i^]ng), p. a. Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? --Dan. i. 10. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Liking'

From: GCIDE
  • Liking \Lik"ing\, n.
  • 1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
  • I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Their young ones are in good liking. --Job. xxxix. 4. [1913 Webster]
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance? --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster]