Single-handedness

Quick meaning: Single-handedness is a noun meaning The quality of having a dominant hand; left-handedness or right-handedness.

Meaning

The quality of having a dominant hand; left-handedness or right-handedness.

More Meanings

1. Chirality
2. Lack of assistance.
3. The quality of having or involving the use of only one hand.

Example Sentences

One step in my method of correcting the stutterer is to build up a single-handedness or sidedness in the individual.

But as we rise in the evolutionary scale of normal creatures, and as we exclude disease, ambidexterity progressively gives way to single-handedness, generally right-handedness.

So not only does the hand of the amino acids dictate the hand of the helix they form, but more profoundly, single-handedness appears to be necessary for helices to form at all.

The process practices autarchy, exclusivism or single-handedness instead of a radical universalism, based on democracy and equality that can be achieved through a united struggle.

Word Forms

• singlehandedness

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include one-handedness, left-handedness, two-handedness, unidexterity, right-handedness, stronghandedness.

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