Dictionary

likeability en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English like Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English likeability From like + -ability.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The property that makes a person likeable, that allows them to be liked.
   • In the category condition. participants (1) guessed the targets' academic majors and (2) rated their likeability. 2004, Wolfgang Stroebe, Miles Hewstone, The European Review of Social Psychology:
   • Attractiveness and likeability isn't simply a matter of sexual desirability. 1975, Leonard Berkowitz, A survey of social psychology:
   • Perhaps the most striking result of this study was that a simple advertising likeability scale predicted sales winners 87% of the time. 1998, John Philip Jones, How advertising works:

Forms

Synonyms

likableness

Translations (5)

ca simpatia (Translations) · fr amabilité (Translations) · ca agradabilitat (Translations) · es agradabilidad (Translations) · pt simpatia (Translations)