What's the difference between ambidexterity and ambidextrousness?
Ambidexterity
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility.
(n.) Versatility; general readiness; as, ambidexterity of argumentation.
(n.) Double-dealing.
(n.) A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict.
Example Sentences:
(1) The posterior lesions, however, may have lowered the frequency of ambidexterity, a finding interpreted in terms of theoretical arguments concerning bilateral symmetry and the discrimination and memory of left and right.
(2) There were no significant differences in the prevalence of left-handedness or non-right-handedness (i.e., left-handedness and ambidexterity combined) between schizophrenic patients and normal subjects.
(3) The addition of a strength of preference scale makes the "mixed" classification a better indicator of ambidexterity than in the original inventory by eliminating from it subjects who show preference for the same hand for nearly all tasks.
(4) No differences could be found either for the right or for the left hand in force of handgrip between right- and left-handed and ambidexterous children.
(5) On the paper-and-pencil task 84% of the children were classified as right-handers, 8% as left-handers, and 8% as ambidexterous.
(6) In 5 with ambidexterity high tone audiometry failed to show any significant preference.
(7) The majority of that group of children included those with ambidexterity and left-handedness.
(8) It is assumed that in children with GSD ambidexterity may be of pathological nature.
(9) Analysis shows significantly more right-handedness in women and ambidexterity in men.
(10) Greater dissociation was statistically associated with ambidexterity of these undergraduates.
(11) The cats with ambidexterity and right-preference in paw use did not show any visible tremorogenic action of these drugs.
(12) In parents and siblings similar changes of laterality of the hand were found, in particular as regards defined and little defined dextrolaterality but not as far as ambidexterity is concerned.
Ambidextrousness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Left-handers exhibited lower NK cell activity compared to right-handed or ambidextrous animals.
(2) I got a hint of the price she has paid for her ambidextrous approach to cultural identify after her last interview was published, when a shocking number of British Pakistani men got in touch to denounce her as a shameful infidel.
(3) When tested in another task (recovering food pellets from a horizontal shelf accessible through a narrow slit below the ceiling of the test box) same rats displayed identical (45%) and opposite (15%) preference or were ambidextrous (40%).
(4) Of 62 males, 20 (32.3%) were right-handed, 39 (62.9%) ambidextrous, and 3 (4.8%) left-handed.
(5) In left-handed and ambidextrous individuals the posterior ends of the sylvian fissures are more often nearly equal in height and the occipital regions are more often equal in width or the right may be wider.
(6) Palm prints of 394 right-handers and 356 non-right-handers (left-handers and ambidextrous) were evaluated regarding intertriradial ridge counts.
(7) Contrary to expectations, speech was produced faster by ambidextrous subjects than by either strongly left- or strongly right-handed subjects under a number of conditions.
(8) There were three distinct groups in respect to paw preferences in dogs: right-preferent (57.1%), left-preferent (17.9%), and ambidextrous (25.0%).
(9) Ambidextrous children in health and with GSD were characterized by noticeable responsiveness of the theta rhythm.
(10) The mean grasp-reflex from right and left were found to be significantly smaller in ambidextrous males and females then right-handed males and females, with a much higher significance for the right hand.
(11) This is where the nail bar's business model comes into its own: it is incredibly hard for the non-ambidextrous to do a good job of both hands.
(12) Among the girls, those with two or more left-handed or ambidextral relatives were the fastest on the color-naming task, those with no such relatives were the slowest, and those with only one left-handed or ambidextral relative scored between the other two groups in color-naming speed.
(13) Non-right-handedness is probably a marker of anomalous cerebral dominance and the disproportion of left-handed and ambidextrous subjects with esotropia may indicate that some persons with esotropia have anomalous brain architecture.
(14) Fifty-five out of 64 subjects were right-handed (RH) and 9 were left-handed or ambidextrous (NRH).
(15) Ambidextrous subjects performed as well as right- or left-handers on unimanual tasks despite a lack of hand preference.
(16) Of the total sample (N = 109), 54 (49.5%) cats were found to be right-preferent, 44 (40.4%) left-preferent, and 11 (10.1%) ambidextrous.
(17) Will the party the other side of an election be a one-handed version of its ambidextrous 1997 form, without the centre-left characters that kept the New Labour coalition going?
(18) In females (N = 63), 34 cats (54.0%) were right-preferent, 23 (36.5%) left-preferent, and 6 (9.5%) ambidextrous.
(19) Whereas in 8 rats the strongly expressed forepaw preference was not changed by lateralized ICSS, in 8 latently ambidextrous animals stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus ipsilateral to the preferred forepaw increased reaching with the normally non-preferred forepaw from 15% to 60%.
(20) In the group of animals with amnesia the numbers of the left-handed, right-handed and ambidextrous were approximately equal.