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Attractiveness vs Likeability - What's the difference?

attractiveness | likeability |

As nouns the difference between attractiveness and likeability

is that attractiveness is the state of being attractive or engaging while likeability is the property that makes a person likeable, that allows them to be liked.

attractiveness

English

(wikipedia attractiveness)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being attractive or engaging.
  • (countable) The result of being attractive.

    • Synonyms

    * attractivity

    Derived terms

    () * physical attractiveness

    References

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    likeability

    English

    Alternative forms

    * likability

    Noun

    (likeabilities)
  • The property that makes a person likeable, that allows them to be liked.
  • * 1975 , Leonard Berkowitz, A survey of social psychology?
    • Attractiveness and likeability isn't simply a matter of sexual desirability.
  • * 1998 , John Philip Jones, How advertising works
    • Perhaps the most striking result of this study was that a simple advertising likeability scale predicted sales winners 87% of the time.
  • * 2004 , Wolfgang Stroebe, Miles Hewstone, The European Review of Social Psychology?
    • In the category condition. participants (1) guessed the targets' academic majors and (2) rated their likeability .