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Ambidexterity   Listen
noun
Ambidexterity  n.  
1.
The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility. Hence: Versatility; general readiness; as, ambidexterity of argumentation. "Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity."
2.
Double-dealing. (Law) A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict.





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"Ambidexterity" Quotes from Famous Books



... a pair of long amber-colored needles, she fell to knitting with a fast, even furious ambidexterity, her mouth pursing up with a driving intensity, her boring gaze so concentrated on the thing in hand that her eyes seemed ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst
... unidexterity is a pubescent change. On the whole, there is a direct relationship between the degree of unidexterity and the intellectual progress of the pupil. At any given age of school life bright or advanced pupils tend toward accentuated unidexterity, and dull or backward pupils tend toward ambidexterity.... Training in ambidexterity is training contrary to a law of ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen
... adult bisexual persons it would seem that the homosexual tendency is stronger and more organic than the heterosexual tendency. Bisexuality would thus in a large number of cases be comparable to ambidexterity, which Biervliet has found to occur most usually in people who are organically left-handed.[136] While therefore the division into heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual is a useful superficial division, it is scarcely ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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