MODALITY

modality

(noun) a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment

modality, sense modality, sensory system

(noun) a particular sense

mood, mode, modality

(noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

modality, mode

(noun) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

modality (countable and uncountable, plural modalities)

The fact of being modal.

(logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.

(linguistics) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood

(medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.

Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)

(semiotics) A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.

(theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.

(music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.

(sociology) The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens' structuration theory).

(legal) The quality of being limited by a condition.

Source: Wiktionary

Mo*dal"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. modalité.]

1. The quality or state of being modal.

2. (Logic & Metaph.)

Definition: A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition