modality
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(noun) a method of therapy that involves physical treatment |
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Related Words: diathermy, massage, treatment |
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(noun) a particular sense |
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Synonyms: sense modality, sensory system |
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Related Words: audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, gustation, gustatory modality, hearing, olfaction, olfactory modality, sensation, sense, sense of hearing, sense of smell, sense of taste, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency, sight, smell, somatosense, taste, vision, visual modality, visual sense |
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(noun) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility |
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Synonyms: mode |
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Related Words: logical relation |
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(noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker |
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Synonyms: mode, mood |
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Related Words: common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, grammatical relation, imperative, imperative mood, indicative, indicative mood, interrogative, interrogative mood, jussive mood, optative, optative mood, subjunctive, subjunctive mood |
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