leftness

English

Etymology

From left +‎ -ness.

Noun

leftness (uncountable)

1. The property of being on, or moving toward, the left.
   • 1995, Mary Dalrymple, Formal Issues in Lexical-functional Grammar, page 254:

     In fact, early generative work recognized a leftness effect on pronoun antecedent relations (Langacker 1969) and the binding of pronouns by quantifiers and other operators (Postal 1972, Jacobson 1977, Chomsky 1976).

   • 2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359:

     The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards, which may result in the accumulation of an unidentified leftness determinant, which flows into the node symmetrically, on the left side of the node.

See also

• rightness

Anagrams

• feltness