Hyphenation of likening

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word likening? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

liken-ing

Definitions of likening:

1.	The act of comparing similarities

Synonyms of likening:

noun	comparison, comparing

Last hyphenations of this language

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