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handiness

handiness noun: the quality or state of being handy.

Noun

handiness (usually uncountable, plural handinesses)

  1. (usually) The quality or state of being handy.
    • All of She Came Too Late is delightfully well-written: one of the most commendable things about it is Wings' handiness with metaphor — she writes of a character who's "a good co-worker, but with as much sense of humor as a cardboard box." Or, "The night came back to me, like a bolt shooting into a...1988 December 11, Georgia Cotrell, “A Lezbeen Sam Spade”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8

handiness meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

handiness in Malayalam

ഒതുക്കം, ചന്തം

handiness in Kannada

ಕರಕೌಶಲ, ಕೈಜಾಣ್ಮೆ, ಪರಿಣತಿ, ತಜ್ಞತೆ, ಬಳಕೆಗೆ, ಆನುಕೂಲ್ಯ

Forms of handiness

pluralhandinesses

Origin of handiness

From handy + -ness.

Questions about handiness

What does handiness mean?
Handiness means the quality or state of being handy.
What is handiness in Malayalam?
Handiness in Malayalam is ഒതുക്കം, ചന്തം. See Handiness meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is handiness?
Handiness is a noun.
What is the plural of handiness?
The plural of handiness is handinesses.

Words near handiness in the dictionary

  1. Handigodu syndrome
  2. handily
  3. handiman
  4. handimen
  5. handin'
  6. handiness
  7. handinesses
  8. handing
  9. handing around
  10. handing away
  11. handing back

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Adapted from Wiktionary: handiness (page history and authors); handiness (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); handiness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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