laterality
noun
laterality is a noun meaning “the state or quality of being lateral” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-T-E-R-A-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of laterality is lateralities.
What does laterality mean?
noun
- 1
the state or quality of being lateral
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of laterality
- lateralities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is laterality?
Laterality appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does laterality come from?
From lateral + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).