leftwardnessn.
/ˈlɛftwədnəs/, U.S. /ˈlɛf(t)wərdnəs/ The quality of tending towards the political left.
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leftism1880
redness1923
leftishness1935
leftwardness1938
left-wingery1939
1938 W. R. Sharp Govt. French Republic iii. 48 There has been an almost continuous evolution of party labels toward the Left. ‘Leftwardness’ is a national political habit.
1966 New Statesman 5 Aug. 203/2 His leftwardness is smilingly excused, but we are not reminded that Eluard was a communist.
1991 H. Felperin in F. Barker et al. Uses of Hist. 88 The ambiguous, gestural, and mainly institutional leftwardness of American ‘cultural poetics’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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