headedness

English

Etymology

headed +‎ -ness

Noun

headedness (uncountable)

1. (chiefly in combination) The state or quality of having a particular type of head (in various senses).
   • 2005 February, Roumyana Pancheva, “The Rise and Fall of Second-Position Clitics”, in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, volume 23, number 1, page 103:

     An analysis of the historical change that led to the development of second-position clitics in Old Bulgarian is proposed that implicates a switch in the parameter of headedness of TP.

Related terms

• big-headedness
• clear-headedness
• cool-headedness
• hot-headedness
• level-headedness
• light-headedness
• woolly-headedness
• wrong-headedness