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Definition of Handedness

1. Noun. The property of using one hand more than the other.

Definition of Handedness

1. Noun. (chemistry physics) The property that distinguishes an asymmetric object from its mirror image. For example, the essential difference between a left and right glove. ¹

2. Noun. A preference for using one hand rather than the other. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Handedness

1. [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Handedness

1. Preference for the use of one hand, most commonly the right, associated with dominance of the opposite cerebral hemisphere; may also be the result of training or habit. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Handedness

Literary usage of Handedness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"There can be no doubt that left-handedness has always been exceptional, ... Even the relics of palaeolithic man indicate a predominant right-handedness, ..."

2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"There can be no doubt that left-handedness has always been exceptional, ... Even the relics of palaeolithic man indicate a predominant right-handedness, ..."

3. Evolution, racial and habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"Right-handedness and Left-handedness. The majority of the human species inherit ... Does this prove that right-handedness is better for the race than left- ..."

4. University of Iowa Studies in Psychology by University of Iowa (1897)
"Is right-handedness inherited, or is it a habit acquired by the individual child? Is right- handedness an advantage, or should ambidexterity be encouraged ..."

5. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada: Déliberations by Royal Society of Canada (1908)
"... X.—Thoughts and Facts on Right and Left Handedness and an Attempt to Explain Why the ... articles upon right handedness, by the late Sir Daniel Wilson. ..."

6. List of Subject Headings for Use in Dictionary Catalogs by American Library Association, Mary Josephine Briggs (1914)
"Left- and right-handedness See also Ambidexterity; Hand Lefthandedness see Left- and right-handedness Leg See also Anatomy; Artificial limbs See also ..."

7. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"Viewed in this light, hereditary left-handedness may be due to the greater development of the right side of the brain. Suppose accident, or the cruelty of ..."

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