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Definition of Likability
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Likability
Literary usage of Likability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990 by Nian-Sheng Huang (1994)
"According to one presidential authority, likability "is the ability to disclose
... The new obsession with likability, of course, had much to do with Ronald ..."
2. The Twentieth Century American: Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of by Harry Perry Robinson (1908)
"But just as the American will not from the likability and kindliness of individual
Englishmen draw any general inference as to the likability and kindliness ..."
3. The County: The "dark Continent" of the American Politics by Henry Stimson Gilbertson (1917)
"His likability, his popularity, have made him ap ticularly valuable adjunct of
the Pike County Republican (or Democratic) organization. ..."
4. When I'm 64 by Laura L. Carstensen, Christine R. Hartel (2006)
"... long pointed to a relationship between choice and likability; it is taken as
axiomatic that freely chosen options are rated more favorably than options ..."
5. Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual Meeting and (1915)
"In addition to those qualifications already mentioned, I would add likability.
This is one of the gifts the gods give men. It defies analysis. ..."
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