single-handedness

noun4

1. •
   The quality of having or involving the use of only one hand.

   • First, imagine the minute hand has been removed so that the dial is complete in every detail but for its single-handedness. — 2012
2. •
   Lack of assistance.

   • The process practices autarchy, exclusivism or single-handedness instead of a radical universalism, based on democracy and equality that can be achieved through a united struggle. — 2004
3. •
   The quality of having a dominant hand; left-handedness or right-handedness.

   • But as we rise in the evolutionary scale of normal creatures, and as we exclude disease, ambidexterity progressively gives way to single-handedness, generally right-handedness. — 1913
4. •
   Chirality

   • So not only does the hand of the amino acids dictate the hand of the helix they form, but more profoundly, single-handedness appears to be necessary for helices to form at all. — 2008