Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of one-handedness.
Eventually speed and onehandedness got the better of Loonie who got the wobbles and let go.
2012, Tim Winton, Breath, →ISBN2 more examples
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.
2003, Thomas Goltz, Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving, →ISBNDerrida's critique is directed against Heidegger's "onehandedness," his etymological over-emphasis of one national language over language as such.
2008, Anna Glazova, Counter-quotation: The Defiance of Poetic Tradition in Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam, →ISBN, page 76
Origin
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