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fairhandedness

noun

Etymology

From fairhanded + -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 fairhanded — “fair + handed”
  7. suffixed as fairhandedness — “fairhanded + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being fairhanded

    The quality of being fairhanded; justice and neutrality of treatment.

    • Of course it must be recognized that "teleological neutrality" may be an impossibility. At least fairhandedness ought to be expected.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fairhandedness. 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