manual dexterity

1. 1.

   adroitness in using the hands

   Synonymsdexteritysleight

   Broaderadeptness

Questions about manual dexterity

What does manual dexterity mean?

manual dexterity means "adroitness in using the hands".

What is another word for manual dexterity?

Close synonyms include dexterity, sleight. 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 manual dexterity a common word?

manual dexterity 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.