right-handedness

See also: righthandedness and right handedness

English

Alternative forms

• righthandedness
• right handedness

Etymology

Etymology tree

English right-handed

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English right-handedness

From right-handed + -ness.

Noun

right-handedness (uncountable)

1. The state of being right-handed.

Synonyms

• dextrality

Antonyms

• left-handedness
• sinistrality

Hypernyms

• ambidexterity
• ambidextrousness
• handedness
• one-handedness

Translations

state of being right-handed

• Finnish: oikeakätisyys (fi)
• French: manualité droite f, dextralité (fr) f, (informal) droiterie (fr) f
• German: Rechtshändigkeit f, Dextralität f (technical)
• Greek: δεξιοχειρία (el) f (dexiocheiría)
• Italian: destrismo (it) m
• Polish: praworęczność (pl) f
• Slovak: praváctvo, pravorukosť
• Spanish: lateralidad diestra f, dextralidad f (current Spanish)
• Swedish: högerhänthet (sv) c
• Volapük: detaskil

See also

• eyedness
• footedness