both-handedness
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It has been claimed by some modern scientists that ambidexterity, or both-handedness, is the natural condition of the race, and that the use of one hand or the other by preference is an acquired habit belonging to the period of development in childhood."
- "Until recently, and even now, both-handedness (ambidextrousness) has been mentioned as a cause of reading difficulties rather than seen as an indicator of immaturity."
- "The binary nature of the study in effect erases mixed or both-handedness."
- "Serving God with one hand and the devil with the other is a style of both-handedness from which we may well pray to be saved."
- "The opposite-handednesses of the monolayer domains composed of D- and L-enantiomers, presence of both-handedness in racemic domains, ..."
- "They exhibit accordingly that property of amphi-cheirality or both-handedness which was noted in the laterales nerves of the lamprey, betokening a possible affinity with the circular neural ring of the jelly-fish."
Etymology
From both-handed + -ness.