modality

1. (noun) a method of therapy that involves physical treatment
Related Words: diathermy, massage, treatment

2. (noun) a particular sense
Synonyms: sense modality, sensory system
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

3. (noun) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
Synonyms: mode
Related Words: logical relation

4. (noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
Synonyms: mode, mood
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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