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handedness
  دستالی   
dastâli

Fr.: latéralité, manualité   

1) A tendency to use one hand rather than the other.
2) The property of an object (as a molecule) of not being identical with its mirror image. Same as → chirality (Merriam-Webster.com).
See also: → B-mode polarization, → E-mode polarization.

→ hand + -ed + → -ness.

Dastâli, from dast, → hand, + -al, → -al, + noun suffix -i, on the model of → chirality.