Likeability vs Likes - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between likeability and likes

is that likeability is the property that makes a person likeable, that allows them to be liked while likes is plural of lang=en.

third-person singular of like.

* likability

(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 .

(head)

They'd never before seen the likes of them.

They'd never before seen the likes of him.

I'd never seen their likes .

(head)

(like)

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