LEFT-HANDEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does left-handedness mean? 

• LEFT-HANDEDNESS (noun)
  The noun LEFT-HANDEDNESS has 2 senses:

1. the status of being born of a morganatic marriage

2. preference for using the left hand

  Familiarity information: LEFT-HANDEDNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEFT-HANDEDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The status of being born of a morganatic marriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Preference for using the left hand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

left-handedness; sinistrality

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

handedness; laterality (the property of using one hand more than the other)

Derivation:

left-handed (using or intended for the left hand)

 Context examples 

But his left-handedness.

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