handedness

Questions about handedness

What does handedness mean?

handedness means "the property of using one hand more than the other".

How many syllables are in handedness?

handedness has 3 syllables: han-ded-ness. The stress falls on "han". In IPA it is /ˈhændədnəs/.

What is another word for handedness?

Close synonyms include laterality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is handedness a common word?

handedness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.