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neathandedness

neathandedness is the alternative form of neat-handedness.

Meaning of neat-handedness

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

Origin of neathandedness

From neathanded + -ness.

Questions about neathandedness

What is neathandedness the alternative form of?
Neathandedness is the alternative form of neat-handedness.

Words near neathandedness in the dictionary

  1. neath
  2. Neath Abbey
  3. Neath Port Talbot
  4. neathanded
  5. neathandedly
  6. neathandedness
  7. neather
  8. neatherd
  9. neatherdess
  10. neatherdesses
  11. neatherds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: neathandedness (page history and authors); neat-handedness (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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