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RIGHT-HANDEDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does right-handedness mean?
• RIGHT-HANDEDNESS (noun)
The noun RIGHT-HANDEDNESS has 1 sense:
1. preference for using the right hand
Familiarity information: RIGHT-HANDEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Preference for using the right hand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
dextrality; right-handedness
Hypernyms ("right-handedness" is a kind of...):
handedness; laterality (the property of using one hand more than the other)
Derivation:
right-handed (rotating to the right)
right-handed (using or intended for the right hand)
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