English

Noun

onehandedness ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative form of one-handedness
   • 2003, Thomas Goltz, Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving, ISBN 1429974354:

     The reason for that was that I could not feel it at all. Or move the thumb. I discovered that fact when I attempted to pick up the camera. It dropped straight back down to the ground. There was no time to reflect on my new onehandedness. The crack and blast of a duel on the far side of the thorn ridge beckoned.

   • 2012, Tim Winton, Breath, ISBN 0857960563:

     Eventually speed and onehandedness got the better of Loonie who got the wobbles and let go.

   • 2008, Anna Glazova, Counter-quotation: The Defiance of Poetic Tradition in Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam, ISBN 0549504052, page 76:

     Derrida's critique is directed against Heidegger's "onehandedness," his etymological over-emphasis of one national language over language as such.