say it: LAHY-king
liking is a noun meaning "a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment". It carries one recorded sense.
a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment
“I've always had a liking for reading”
“she developed a liking for gin”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for liking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.