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leftness

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The property of being on, or moving toward, the left.

uncountable

Examples

“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).”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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