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fair-handedness

fair-handedness is the alternative form of fairhandedness.

Meaning of fairhandedness

Noun

fairhandedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being fairhanded; justice and neutrality of treatment.
    • Of course it must be recognized that "teleological neutrality" may be an impossibility. At least fairhandedness ought to be expected.2010, John H. Walton, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate, →ISBN, page 189

Origin of fair-handedness

From fair-handed + -ness.

Questions about fair-handedness

What is fair-handedness the alternative form of?
Fair-handedness is the alternative form of fairhandedness.

Words near fair-handedness in the dictionary

  1. fair-haired
  2. fair-haired boy
  3. fair-haired boys
  4. fair-handed
  5. fair-handedly
  6. fair-handedness
  7. fair-headed
  8. fair-maid-of-France
  9. fair-mannered
  10. fair-minded
  11. fair-mindedly

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