I don’t mean Ambidextrous!
Yesterday I tried cutting a vegetable with the knife in my non-dominant hand and it was a weird and uncomfortable thing. I wonder if there are people who have that distinct discomfort of using your “bad” hand, but on both hands?
I don’t think it would fall under ambidexterity, because that kinda implies someone is comfortable with either hand, but could someone be uncomfortable with both?
There’s a word for it.
Ambisinister
https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/ambisinister-2021-08-13/
Ahhh I just referred to myself as ambicrap! Thank you for this new word! :)
This is correct, but I prefer damnbidextrous, because I can’t do a damn thing with either hand.
And as an English expression for when you have a penchant for dropping things: “I have two left hands”
Interesting. The word for good with both is related to dextral or right-handed, and the word for bad with both comes from sinister or left-handed.
Well sinister is used to describe anything that’s ‘off’
Awesome, that’s exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!!
I’d have called it antidexterity
Looking at the origin:
ambi, Greek: both;
anti, Greek: against, opposed;
dexter, Latin: right, skilful, clever;
sinister, Latin: left, wrong, evil;
So sinister is already anti-dexter, the ambi just emphasises that this not-skilfulness applies to both hands. In German, calling somebody having “two left hands” means that they aren’t skilful at all in handcrafting.
Guess that’s similar to “two left feet” when dancing
Yes, that exists as well.
Did you even read the OP or have they changed it?
They wrote antidexterity, not ambidexterity
My brain just autocorrected it, I guess. My b.
No, ambidexterity is comfort with both hands. Ambisinestrousness is discomfort with both hands.
They wrote antidexterity
Oh I missed that. That’s clever.