Liking vs. Loving — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Liking and Loving
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Liking
A feeling of attraction or love; fondness
The dog has taken a liking you.
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Loving
Feeling or showing love or great care
A loving father
The cargo was described in loving detail
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Liking
Preference or taste
The climate here is not to my liking.
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Loving
Feeling love; affectionate.
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Liking
Present participle of like
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Loving
Indicative of or exhibiting love.
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Liking
A like; a predilection.
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Loving
The action of the verb to love.
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Liking
(archaic) Approval.
Goods bought on liking
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Loving
Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.
His loving wife
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Liking
Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look.
Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort?
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Loving
Present participle of love
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Liking
The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below.
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Loving
Affectionate.
The fairest and most loving wife in Greece.
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Liking
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.
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.
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Loving
Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
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Liking
Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition.
I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
Their young ones are in good liking.
Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance?
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Loving
Feeling or showing love and affection;
Loving parents
Loving glances
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Liking
A feeling of pleasure and enjoyment;
I've always had a liking for reading
She developed a liking for gin
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