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Left-handedness   /lɛft-hˈændədnəs/   Listen
noun
Left-handiness, Left-handedness  n.  The state or quality of being left-handed; awkwardness. "An awkward address, ungraceful attitudes and actions, and a certain left-handiness (if I may use the expression) proclaim low education."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Left-handedness" Quotes from Famous Books



... course, these facts might be explicable on the supposition that Plattner has undertaken an elaborate mystification, on the strength of his heart's displacement. Photographs may be faked, and left-handedness imitated. But the character of the man does not lend itself to any such theory. He is quiet, practical, unobtrusive, and thoroughly sane, from the Nordau standpoint. He likes beer, and smokes moderately, takes walking exercise daily, ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

... psychology to races. Comparative rates of nervous impulse, sensation, muscular movements, and mental processes. Right- and left-handedness. Anomalous brain actions. ...
— Anthropology - As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States • Daniel Garrison Brinton

... obvious left-handedness, in certain connections, of Julius and Skirrl, I tested the preference of several of the monkeys in the following simple way. Standing outside the cage I would hold out a peanut to a hungry animal, keeping it so far from the cage that the monkey could barely reach it with its fingers. ...
— The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes - A Study of Ideational Behavior • Robert M. Yerkes



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