[f. prec. + -ITY.] † a. The quality of having (distinct) sides; (right- or left-) sidedness; also, the condition of being sideways. Obs. b. (See quot. 1894.)
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. v. 187. This prevalency is uncertainly placed in the laterallity, or custom determines its indifferency. Ibid., 191. These lateralities in man are not only fallible, if relatively determined unto each other, but made in reference unto the heavens and quarters of the Globe. Ibid., 192. We may as reasonably conclude a right and left laterallity in the Ark or navall edifice of Noah.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Laterality, the side-being, or being side-ways of a thing.
1894. Gould, Illustr. Dict. Med., Laterality, excessive development on one side.
