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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A preference for use of one eye over the other.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality of having a dominant eye - one eye that is used more than the other.
  • noun in combinations The state or quality of having a particular type of eye or eyes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the property of favoring one eye over the other (as in taking aim)

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Examples

  • Since the greatest problem with my backhand is due to my right-handedness and left-eyedness, stepping backward isn't exactly helpful.

    Free Books / Nattering about disc 2010

  • Since the greatest problem with my backhand is due to my right-handedness and left-eyedness, stepping backward isn't exactly helpful.

    Free Books / Nattering about disc 2010

  • Oh well, more ignorance and certainly more than a little green eyedness on the part of his honor Rendel ….

    Blogtalk: Rendell on Napolitano’s ‘No Life’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • With some swivel-eyedness they really believe they are the keepers of the torch whereas we are the party of Heath, and Mrs T and her Single European Act, and that one day they will supplant us as the centre-right party.

    Stuart Wheeler must be expelled Tim Roll-Pickering 2009

  • I marvel at how many assumptions you make about my wide-eyedness, my age, what degree of other research I may have already done.

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  • I marvel at how many assumptions you make about my wide-eyedness, my age, what degree of other research I may have already done.

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  • I marvel at how many assumptions you make about my wide-eyedness, my age, what degree of other research I may have already done.

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  • I marvel at how many assumptions you make about my wide-eyedness, my age, what degree of other research I may have already done.

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  • I marvel at how many assumptions you make about my wide-eyedness, my age, what degree of other research I may have already done.

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  • I marvel at how many assumptions you make about my wide-eyedness, my age, what degree of other research I may have already done.

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