(a.) Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prosocial behavior mediated the relations of gender and expressed emotions with likability (i.e., gender and expressed emotions were each related to prosocial behavior, and prosocial behavior was related to likability, but neither gender nor expressed emotions were related to likability with prosocial behavior partialled out).
(2) Eye-to-eye, the bumbling bonhomie appeared to be a lacquer of likability over a living obelisk of corporate power.
(3) I distinctly recall thinking that he was one of the most likable adults I had thus far encountered.
(4) Measures of likability, emotion knowledge, prosocial and aggressive behavior, peer competence, and expressed emotions (happy and angry) were obtained for 65 subjects (mean age = 44 months).
(5) As women become more successful, they're perceived as less likable; for men, it's the opposite.
(6) As expected, actors who had a good reputation or were remorseful were seen as more likable, as having better motives, as doing the damage unintentionally, as more sorry and as less blameworthy.
(7) Why is Adele so robustly likable, while the equally successful Taylor Swift often comes across like a wounded deer?
(8) Like most of the characters he has played, Bateman can get away with saying terrible things but still be incredibly likable.
(9) Analysis using Roter's coding scheme suggests that faculty scored students on the basis of likability rather than specific behavioral skills, limiting their ability to provide behaviorally specific feedback.
(10) This desire to play likable guys incurred the dislike of some critics, who found Williams' film CV too dependent on these secular saints.
(11) Dentist perceptions of patient sophistication and anxiety were related to several patient characteristics, but perceptions of patient likability were unrelated to patient personal and social characteristics.
(12) Edward the professor is likable and trustworthy, but what the party needs more of is Evangelical Ed.
(13) Groups of untrained judges viewed the tapes and rated their impressions of the subjects on scales of likability, speaking effectiveness, and expressivity-confidence.
(14) Only the female children of schizophrenics were viewed as less likable than controls.
(15) But although his likability, proven persistence and enforced gravitas will hold him in good stead as he embarks upon a road much harder than the one he's already travelled, he has a lot more to prove.
(16) Pratt got happy and fat, acknowledging that being big made the character more likable.
(17) PEI Aggression and Withdrawal scores were more stable in grades 3 and 5 than in grade 1, and the Likability factor was more stable in grades 2 to 5 than in grade 1.
(18) Finally, whereas the aggressive character was low in likability at all grades, the withdrawn character was viewed as increasingly less likable as grade increased.
(19) However, they were not very accurate at discerning which partners perceived them as most competent or most likable across all interactions (person accuracy).
(20) The comments were positive, and lovely, my “voice” being described as warm or approachable; down to earth and likable.
Livable
Definition:
(a.) Such as can be lived.
(a.) Such as in pleasant to live in; fit or suitable to live in.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based around the meeting point of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers and renowned for its huge number of bridges and evocatively named neighbourhoods such as Shadyside and the Mexican War Streets, Pittsburgh is consistently ranked in surveys as a desirable place to live; the Economist Intelligence Unit this year called it America's most "livable" city.
(2) The present study was conducted to determine if dietary ascorbic acid (AA) would improve growth, feed efficiency, and livability of broilers following an acute heating episode.
(3) The optimum temperature of the livability of M. expansa eggs in laboratory conditions is 5 degrees C; at this temperature 10% of oncospheres survived after 161 days.
(4) To make London livable, we need to fight poverty too.
(5) Data were collected for body weight, time to onset of lay, egg production, and livability in both experiments.
(6) Progeny of vaccinated parents had reduced livability.
(7) If any government wants to carry out demolitions in the community today, the people will say ‘But you’ve requested a plan, and that plan has been submitted, so what steps have you taken?’ Second, the plan was able to outline various strategies for redeveloping Makoko into a livable and sustainable community.” Not everyone is a fan of slum redevelopment or plans for regeneration.
(8) The feed-in tariff it is not a subsidy but rather an attempt to correct the perverse incentive to destroy the future livability of the planet that is inherent in conventional economics.
(9) Families with younger children say that children make the free state more livable, but many of the old timers have come to Christiania to avoid structure and stability and the baby boom, they say, raises the question of who Christiania is really for.
(10) Livability rates, however, were lowest for untrimmed males and highest for untrimmed females.
(11) Livability in the phase systems was also variable, and we believe that PEG may exert a detergent-like effect on the sperm surface that is exacerbated in highly defined media free of protective proteins.
(12) The observed differences in livability at 6 wk of age could increase the number of saleable broilers by 10 to 15 thousand per million chicks placed.
(13) As measured by livability, weight gain, feed efficiency, morbidity, dropping score, lesion score, and oocyst production the drug was highly effective in Beltsville Small White turkeys.
(14) Sex was not a significant source of variation in lamb livability.
(15) Performance parameters following challenge included weight gain, oocyst production, fecal droppings, and livability.
(16) Clean air and water, and a livable climate are inalienable human rights.
(17) It was concluded that poult death is associated with low plasma CS levels, but diet-induced increases in plasma CS did not significantly improve livability following a stressful condition.
(18) The intention of the exercise certainly wasn't to identify the world's "best" or "most livable" cities.
(19) Vaccinated and unvaccinated poults were compared for seroconversion, response to laboratory challenge with a virulent HE virus at 3 weeks postvaccination, livability, percentage graded A, and average weight at marketing.
(20) These pollutants exerted no adverse effects on egg production, egg weight, egg shell thickness, feed consumption, adult body weight changes, livability and fertility after 8 weeks of biphenyl feeding, irrespective of biphenyl level or compound.