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singlehandedness

singlehandedness is the alternative form of single-handedness.

Meaning of single-handedness

Noun

single-handedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of having a dominant hand; left-handedness or right-handedness.
    • Recent experiments and observations, however, prove that single-handedness is merely the result of faulty or restricted education. Careful observations have shown that out of every hundred persons born into this world eighty are congenitally ambidextrous — that is to say, they will instinctively...1907, The New England Medical Gazette - Volume 42, page 325
  2. Chirality
    • In the complexes, the direction and affinity of the hydroxy group for hydrogen bond toward the carboxy group of poly-12 may be the most important factor to control both the helical sense and an extent of the single-handedness, and therefore, the complexes with amino alcohols showed an intense ICD...2000, Nina Berova, Koji Nakanishi, Robert Woody, Circular Dichroism: Principles and Applications, →ISBN, page 529
  3. Lack of assistance.
    • The process practices autarchy, exclusivism or single-handedness instead of a radical universalism, based on democracy and equality that can be achieved through a united struggle.2004, Samir Dasgupta, The Changing Face of Globalization, →ISBN
  4. The quality of having or involving the use of only one hand.
    • Maurice Ravel wrote a Concerto pour piano en sol majeur for both a left hand and a right hand, whereas the Concerto pour la main gauche marks itself as different in its declaration of single-handedness.2006, Neil William Lerner, Joseph Nathan Straus, Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music, →ISBN, page 75

Origin of singlehandedness

From singlehanded + -ness.

Questions about singlehandedness

What is singlehandedness the alternative form of?
Singlehandedness is the alternative form of single-handedness.

Words near singlehandedness in the dictionary

  1. singlefooting
  2. singlefoots
  3. singlehand
  4. singlehanded
  5. singlehandedly
  6. singlehandedness
  7. singlehanding
  8. singlehands
  9. singlehearted
  10. singleheartedly
  11. singleheartedness

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