a. [f. LIKE v.1 + -ABLE.] That can be liked; pleasing; agreeable.
1730. Gay, in Swift’s Lett. (1766), II. 119. I would fain know you; for I often hear more good likeable things than ’tis possible any one can deserve.
1780. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary, May. We made a long visit here, as the people were mighty likeable.
1834–43. Southey, Doctor, xxxiv. (1862), 82. It is a very likeable place, being one of the most comfortable towns in England.
1882. Stevenson, Fam. Stud. 389. The most likable utterance of Knox’s that I can quote.
Hence Likeability rare = next.
1823. Southey, in Life & Corr., V. 144. My civilities to them are regulated … a little more perhaps by their likeability.
