ambidexterity

[ am-bi-dek-ster-i-tee ]

noun

1. ambidextrous ease, skill, or facility.
2. unusual cleverness.
3. duplicity; deceitfulness.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ambidexterity¹

First recorded in 1645–55; ambidexter + -ity

Example Sentences

But Yeoh has defied this, cultivating a sort of full-body ambidexterity, shifting at will between modes of movement that have lived in her for years.

From New York Times

For years, he had written stories and screenplays switching between Chinese and his native Tibetan with a nimble linguistic ambidexterity.

From New York Times

There are two inscriptions on the painting, one written from right to left and the other written from left to right, which provides evidence of ambidexterity, the researchers said.

From Fox News

But in basketball — as in soccer and lacrosse — ambidexterity is encouraged.

From New York Times

The shape-shifting ambidexterity of Loy’s paintings is a testament to her capacity to understand reality as a multilayered mixture of facts and feelings, sensations and sentiments, outlooks and insights, selves and others.

From Los Angeles Times