dexterity
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Middle French dextérité, from Latin dexteritas, from dexter (“on the right”), this is in reference to most people having greater fine motor skills in their right hand. Partially displaced native Old English handcræft, whence Modern English handcraft.
- derived from dexteritas
- borrowed from dextérité
Definitions
Skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands.
- Playing computer games can improve your manual dexterity.
- She twirled the pencil through her fingers with impressive dexterity.
- With mutual toil, and intuitive dexterity, we built our commodious habitation in the hollow of a mango tree, that the fruit, which was then in bloſſom, might ſubſiſt our young.
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Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at dexterity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at dexterity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at dexterity
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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