Definition of Eyedness

1. Noun. The property of favoring one eye over the other (as in taking aim).

Generic synonyms: Asymmetry, Dissymmetry, Imbalance

Definition of Eyedness

1. Noun. The quality of having a dominant eye - one eye that is used more than the other. ¹

2. Noun. (context: in combinations) The state or quality of having a particular type of eye or eyes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eyedness

1. preference for the use of one eye over the other [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyedness

eyebrow
eyebrow-raising
eyebrow pencil
eyebrow pencils
eyebrowed
eyebrowless
eyebrowlike
eyebrows
eyecare
eyecatcher
eyecatchers
eyecatching
eyecup
eyecups
eyed
eyedness (current term)
eyednesses
eyedrop
eyedropper
eyedroppers
eyedrops
eyeflap
eyeflaps
eyefold
eyefolds
eyeful
eyefuls
eyegasm
eyegasms

Literary usage of Eyedness

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"I have not been able to conclude as to the existence of any degree of right-handedness or left- handedness or of right-eyedness or left- ..."

2. American Medicine (1921)
"Has. anyone, I wonder, explained the fact that as presbyopia advances the axes of astigmatism, formerly at 90°, often turn slowly to 180° ? Rlght-eyedness ..."

3. Interest and Effort in Education by John Dewey (1913)
"The ass, in other words, is always already moving toward one bundle rather than the other. No amount of physical cross-eyedness could induce such mental ..."

4. Interest as Related to Will by John Dewey (1903)
"The ass, in other words, is always already moving toward one bundle rather than the other. No amount of physical cross-eyedness could induce such psychical ..."

5. Bibliography of the Contributions of George M. Gould, M.D., to Ophthalmology by George Milbry Gould (1909)
"The same. Biographic Clinics III. Philadelphia : P. Blakiston's Son & Company, 1905. Chapter XII, p. 415 ff. Right-eyedness and ..."

6. Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homoeopathic Practice by Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Amos Gerald Hull, Frederick Greenwood Snelling (1885)
"—Blear-eyedness.—Vanishing of sight.—Sensation as if blindness were coming on in the ... Hollow-eyedness.—Ophthalmia, abating in the cool and open air, ..."

7. The Heroic Legends of Denmark by Axel Olrik (1919)
"The only apparently new motif, the one- eyedness of the hero, is borrowed from one of the few Swedish legendary heroes known to the Icelanders, ..."

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