Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being likable. Also spelled likeableness.

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  • noun The property of being likable, that which makes likable.

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Examples

  • There can't be any doubt any more -- this election seems more and more like a referendum on Fenty's (un) likableness. ...

    DeMorning DeBonis: July 12, 2010 2010

  • Burns carefully selected the veterans, families and communities through whose eyes we see the war for their geographic and ethnic distribution, and also for their just-folksy likableness.

    War and Remembrance 2007

  • Flexibility brings up your good looks, beauty, image, and likableness

    The Genius of Flexibility Bob Cooley 2005

  • Flexibility brings up your good looks, beauty, image, and likableness

    The Genius of Flexibility Bob Cooley 2005

  • There was no more likable man in the west, and no better rider, either; but riding wasn't everything, and neither was likableness.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • There was no more likable man in the west, and no better rider, either; but riding wasn't everything, and neither was likableness.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • If you like people only within a limited range, you will similarly narrow your own likableness.

    Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

  • _But they are inside him, and you can pull them toward you_ if you bring your likableness to bear upon his heart.

    Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

  • The emphasis placed on the importance of likableness as the _principal_ factor in getting yourself wanted may have made you forget the _primary_ necessity of showing your prospect _a real lack in his business, and that you are capable of filling it_.

    Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

  • What probably brought the two men together -- apart from their common likableness -- was that each, in his way, refused to "go the whole hog."

    The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

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