laterality

Other forms of laterality

plural

lateralities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about laterality

What does laterality mean?

laterality means "localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laterality?

laterality has 5 syllables: la-te-ra-li-ty. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for laterality?

Close synonyms include lateralization, lateralisation, handedness, dominance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laterality a common word?

laterality is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.