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both-handedness

noun

Etymology

From both-handed + -ness.

  1. inherited from *handuz✻
  2. inherited from *handu✻
  3. inherited from hand
  4. inherited from hond
  5. suffixed as handed — “hand + ed”
  6. compounded as both-handed — “both + handed”
  7. suffixed as both-handedness — “both-handed + ness”

Definitions

  1. Ambidexterity.

    • Until recently, and even now, both-handedness (ambidextrousness) has been mentioned as a cause of reading difficulties rather than seen as an indicator of immaturity.
    • The binary nature of the study in effect erases mixed or both-handedness.

  2. The property of involving two sides, approaches, or orientations.

    • Serving God with one hand and the devil with the other is a style of both-handedness from which we may well pray to be saved.
    • The opposite-handednesses of the monolayer domains composed of D- and L-enantiomers, presence of both-handedness in racemic domains, ...
    • They exhibit accordingly that property of amphi-cheirality or both-handedness which was noted in the laterales nerves of the lamprey, betokening a possible affinity with the circular neural ring of the jelly-fish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for both-handedness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA