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neat-handedness

neat-handedness noun: the quality or state of being neat-handed.

Noun

neat-handedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being neat-handed.
    • Throughout all these trifling actions the natural grace, delicacy, and prim neat-handedness of the woman still waited mechanically on the most useless and aimless of her occupations of the moment.2008, Wilkie Collins, The Dead Secret, →ISBN, page 28

Forms of neat-handedness

alternative formneathandedness

Origin of neat-handedness

From neat-handed + -ness.

Questions about neat-handedness

What does neat-handedness mean?
Neat-handedness means the quality or state of being neat-handed.
What part of speech is neat-handedness?
Neat-handedness is a noun.

Words near neat-handedness in the dictionary

  1. neat weights
  2. neat-freakery
  3. neat-freaks
  4. neat-handed
  5. neat-handedly
  6. neat-handedness
  7. neat-house
  8. neat-houses
  9. neatball
  10. neatballs
  11. neatbeast

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