singlehandedness
singlehandedness is the alternative form of single-handedness.
Meaning of single-handedness
Noun
single-handedness (uncountable)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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