left-handedness
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- noun
- /ˈlɛftˈhændɪdnəs/
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- When added to my left-handedness, which seemed to cause everything I did to come from an unexpected direction, my new shots made me into a faintly respectable player.
Examples
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Between 1982 and 1989, he entered competitions and won numerous awards with his high-tech boomerangs and off-beat throwing style, which derived from his left-handedness.
Academic text (1993) -
Until very recently, left handedness was considered a defect and in school children were forced to use their right hands.
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Marilyn Pauline Novak, alias Kim Novak, was born to a father who wanted a son and tried to change everything about her, even her left-handedness.
Fiction book (1991) -
Simple left-handedness: writing backwards is easier for a lefty—one of genius anyway—less self-cramping.
Blog text (17) -
Many people with left-handedness find it challenging to use tools designed for right-handed individuals.
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Individuals with left-handedness often develop unique techniques for writing and eating.
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In some cultures, left-handedness was historically viewed with suspicion or superstition.
Synonyms
A preference for using the left hand for tasks like writing
Antonyms
How Left-Handed
Surface Forms
Morphology
left-handedness = left-handed (transparent) = left + hand + ed + ness
A straightforward noun formed by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'left-handed'.
Etymology
Left-handedness is made from left + hand + -ness, so it literally means the 'state of' using the left hand. A helpful way to remember it is that left once had a meaning like 'weak' in old English, which made the right seem 'correct' in many places, but today left-handedness simply describes which hand a person prefers to use.