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handedness

handedness Handedness is the greater skill or dominance of one hand over the other.

Handedness is the greater skill or dominance of one hand over the other. In this historical source, the usual form is right-handedness, while left-handedness is described as the less common opposite and contrasted with ambidextrous ability in both hands.

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Drafting source: Baldwin Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901. 1901 New York Macmillan original; archive index checked 2026-10-18. “Ambidextrous” (Ambidextrous).
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