Is there a term for words that indicate "direction"?
For example, words like "left", "right", "close to", "above", "across from" etc. I've found on a lot of websites they're called "directional words" but I was wondering if there was a more technical term. I'm thinking of it as a subset of prepositions, words that only indicate some kind of relative position.
EDIT: I think one possible term is spatial adposition.
Solution 1:
Perhaps orientation
the position of something in relation to its surroundings: The church has an east-west orientation (has one main side facing east and the opposite side facing west).