EGAVE

handedness

About 0.58 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A preference (usually innate) for using one hand rather than the other.
  2. noun The property that distinguishes an asymmetric object from its mirror image. For example, the essential difference between a left and right glove.

Similar words

laterality chirality closehandedness dichroism hand-eye coordination anisotropy perverse heterochirality homotheticity two left hands

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Word family

handednesses

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