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eyedness, n.|ˈaɪdnəs|
[f. eyed ppl. a. + -ness; cf. handedness n.]
1. As the second element of combs., as blear-eyedness (blear-eyed a.), cock-eyedness (cock-eyed a.), cross-eyedness, one-eyedness (one-eyed a. 26), etc.
c1440Promp. Parv. 39 Blerydnesse. 1591R. Percivall Spanish Dict., Entordatura,..squinteidnes, crookedness. 1904Science 8 Apr. 593/2 It may be better for the oculist to leave a person right-eyed rather than to give such lenses as suddenly compel left-eyedness. 1921G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah p. li, There is no reason to suspect Weismann of Sadism... It was a mere piece of one-eyedness; and it was Darwin who put out Weismann's humane and sensible eye. 1941A. Koestler Scum 78 And yet in this apparent cock-eyedness there was the same administrative logic. 1992Independent 4 Aug. 13/5 Brain-damaged left-handers..are much more likely than right-handers to suffer a range of problems: insomnia.., cross-eyedness.., [etc.].
2. The dominance of, or preference for the use of, either the right or the left eye.
1934in Webster. 1937S. T. Orton Reading, Writing, & Speech Probl. in Children i. 48 We have no guide..as to which is the dominant hemisphere except the ‘laterality’ of the individual, that is, his handedness, eyedness, and footedness. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia viii. 51 The inadequacies of most accepted tests of eyedness. 1982Sci. Amer. July 32/2 Of course, we are not really one-handed at all. The two hands work in mutual aid; handedness refers to the active partner in many two-handed forms of behaviour. Similarly, eyedness is by no means simple. |