The Collaborative International Dictionary
Left-handedness \Left"-hand`ed*ness\, Left-handiness \Left"-hand`i*ness\ (-[i^]*n[e^]s), n. The state or quality of being left-handed; awkwardness.
An awkward address, ungraceful attitudes and actions,
and a certain left-handiness (if I may use the
expression) proclaim low education.
--Chesterfield.
Wiktionary
alt. The state of being left-handed. n. The state of being left-handed.
WordNet
n. preference for using the left hand [syn: sinistrality]
Usage examples of "left-handedness".
Near midnight, in a moment of clarity, he noticed her left-handedness for the first time because of the way she offered him a can of Archaicist-trade beer.
I was driven by the implication built into many of the Indo-European languages of the sinister quality of left-handedness.