English Dictionary

one-handedness

noun

The quality of having a dominant hand; left-handedness or right-handedness. / Chirality / The possession of only one hand or the ability to use only one hand; the loss of the use of one hand.

He has impressive one-handedness in playing the piano.

意味（1）

The quality of having a dominant hand; left-handedness or right-handedness.

Again some persons are too right-handed (I question, indeed, whether one-handedness, whether right or left be chiefly employed, does not in all cases involve a loss of power).

意味（2）

Chirality

It must be noted that the stimulating hypotheses of Cairns-Smith (1982) emphasizing the role of clays in the origin of life do not account for the crucial one-handedness of biopolymers required to ensure the survival of self-replicating organic systems.

意味（3）

The possession of only one hand or the ability to use only one hand; the loss of the use of one hand.

The young man had married a woman who had only one hand, and it was on the fact of her one-handedness that my thought was focused.

意味（4）

The state of choosing to use only one hand.

A later generation of bebop pianists would often be accused of one-handedness; their right hands flew along with melodies and improvisations, while their weak left hands just plonked chords.

意味（5）

The quality of being designed for only one hand.

As can be witnessed in a performance of that work by Fleisher, it is indeed a dazzling display piece in which, if it is only heard and not seen, its one-handedness might evade listeners' notice.

意味（6）

A state in which only one person is active

Holding intercourse with Sir William at this date partook a good deal of the nature of a one-handed conversation, and the one-handedness seemed to increase when the only share of the host, in the post-prandial conviviality, consisted in passing the decanters, which Sir William was scrupulous to do.

意味（7）

(metaphoric) Weakness, limitation

Mr. Herbert makes his moan over the awful one-handedness and one-leggedness of our rich classes, who are smitten with the universal incapacity to help theniselves.