leftness

left +‎ -ness

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.

• rightness

• feltness