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- Skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands.
Playing computer games can improve your manual dexterity.
- An attribute / statistic in a roleplaying game, describing agility
My character in the game is very lithe, he has a high dexterity.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Dex*ter"i*ty (?), n. [L.
dexteritas, fr. dexter: cf. F.
dextérité. See Dexter.]
1. Right-handedness.
2. Readiness and grace in physical activity;
skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as,
dexterity with the chisel.
In youth quick bearing and
dexterity. Shak.
3. Readiness in the use or control of the
mental powers; quickness and skill in managing any complicated or
difficult affair; adroitness.
His wisdom . . . was turned . . . into a
dexterity to deliver himself. Bacon.
He had conducted his own defense with singular
boldness and dexterity. Hallam.
Syn. -- Adroitness; activity; nimbleness; expertness;
skill; cleverness; art; ability; address; tact; facility; aptness;
aptitude; faculty. See Skill.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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