HANDEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does handedness mean? 

• HANDEDNESS (noun)
  The noun HANDEDNESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of using one hand more than the other

  Familiarity information: HANDEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANDEDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of using one hand more than the other

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

handedness; laterality

Hypernyms ("handedness" is a kind of...):

asymmetry; dissymmetry; imbalance ((mathematics) a lack of symmetry)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "handedness"):

ambidexterity; ambidextrousness (the property of being equally skillful with each hand)

left-handedness; sinistrality (preference for using the left hand)

dextrality; right-handedness (preference for using the right hand)

Derivation:

handed (having or involving the use of hands)

 Context examples 

But his left-handedness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)