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handedness
hand·ed·ness [ hándədnəss ]


noun 
Definition:
 
1. use of favorite hand: the tendency to prefer the use of one hand over the other
2. property of being asymmetric: the property of some objects whereby they cannot be superimposed on their mirror images
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