Ambidextry
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ambidextry is a noun meaning Ambidextrousness.
Meaning
Ambidextrousness.
More Meanings
- Two-sidedness; embracing or engaging in both sides of a dichotomy.
Example Sentences
Autonomy and sense of belonging are balanced by this ambidextry.
Righthandedness for one thing, lefthandedness for another, occurs, within the group of righthanded and lefthanded, and even ambidextry also.
Floor ambidextry was identified at the beginning of the experiment as the psychomotor skill of 8.33% of the experimental group components; at the end of the experiment, the same values were recorded.
The anonymous Song on the Venality of the Judges, which dates from this period, regarded those sitting in judgment as 'seduced from justice' by partiality and bribes and those pleading in court as guilty of 'ambidextry', i.e. of accepting gifts not just from their own client, but from both parties ('pleaders. . . take with both hands').
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ambidextrism, both-handedness, double-handedness, manyhandedness, bimanuality, ambipolarity.
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