left-handedness
Dominant hand minority
Left-handedness is the tendency to favor the left hand for tasks like writing, throwing, or eating.
About ten percent of people are left-handed.
The trait has historically carried negative associations—sinister derives from Latin for "left"—but modern usage is neutral.
Left-handedness runs in her family.
Left-side dominant
- southpawLeft-handed person, informally
- leftyNon-dominant-side user
- ambidextrousSkilled with both hands
- handednessPreferred limb dominance
cross-dominance · lateralization · sidedness · left-footer · anticlockwise · counterclockwise
Pivoted twin-blade cutter
- can-openerDevice for unsealing tins
- notebookBlank pages for jottings
- deskFurniture for writing
- smudgingMaking blurry marks
ink · guitar · mouse · ergonomics · tools · modification · accessibility · accommodation
Baseless belief in omens
- stigmaMark of dishonor
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
prejudice · correction · discrimination · celebration · mythology · omen · unlucky · gauche
Skillful hand coordination
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- hand-eyeVision-movement synchronization
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
penmanship · calligraphy · brushwork · craftsmanship · batting · pitching · fencing · boxing
Science of hereditary transmission
- heredityGenetic trait transmission
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- neurologicalOf the nervous system
asymmetry · phenotype · allele · chromosome · predisposition · developmental · cortex · wiring
Smaller part of whole
- uncommonSeldom occurring or found
- atypicalNot conforming to type
- percentageProportion out of hundred
- statisticsCollected numerical information
prevalence · distribution · population · frequency · incidence · proportion
sinistral
Left-side dominant
- southpawLeft-handed person, informally
- leftyNon-dominant-side user
- ambidextrousSkilled with both hands
handedness · cross-dominance · lateralization · sidedness · left-footer · anticlockwise · counterclockwise
scissors
Pivoted twin-blade cutter
- can-openerDevice for unsealing tins
- notebookBlank pages for jottings
- deskFurniture for writing
smudging · ink · guitar · mouse · ergonomics · tools · modification · accessibility · accommodation · reversed
superstition
Baseless belief in omens
folklore · prejudice · correction · discrimination · celebration · mythology · omen · unlucky · gauche · cack-handed
dexterity
Skillful hand coordination
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- hand-eyeVision-movement synchronization
manipulation · penmanship · calligraphy · brushwork · craftsmanship · batting · pitching · fencing · boxing · advantage
genetics
Science of hereditary transmission
- heredityGenetic trait transmission
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
neurological · asymmetry · phenotype · allele · chromosome · predisposition · developmental · cortex · wiring · prenatal
minority
Smaller part of whole
- uncommonSeldom occurring or found
- atypicalNot conforming to type
- percentageProportion out of hundred
statistics · prevalence · distribution · population · frequency · incidence · proportion
- body lorepalm reading, palmistry, phrenology, physiognomy, face reading
- body traitsheight, weight, body shape, build, stature
- Genetic Traitshair color, dark hair, skin color, dimples, blood type
- left and right symbolismright hand, dexter, sinister, sinistral, right-handedness
- brain lateralitylaterality, handedness, brain lateralization, right-handedness, hand dominance
- neurodevelopmentneural tube, neurogenesis, neuroblast, neuroblasts, neural tube defects
left-handednessright-handedness
Favoring the dominant hand
right-handed · ambidexterity · ambidextrousness · cross-dominance
left-handed, lefthander, lefthanders, left-hand, left-hander, left hand