modality
the quality or state of being modal.
an attribute or circumstance that denotes mode or manner.
Also called mode. Logic. the classification of propositions according to whether they are contingently true or false, possible, impossible, or necessary.
Medicine/Medical. the application of a therapeutic agent, usually a physical therapeutic agent.
one of the primary forms of sensation, as vision or touch.
Origin of modality
1Other words from modality
- mul·ti·mo·dal·i·ty, noun
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How to use modality in a sentence
There is some scientific merit to some alternative modalities, such as the well-documented placebo effect.
When dealing with the Iraq War, he never falters or bludgeons the reader on the head with tired modalities.
On the Hunt For…: Greg Baxter’s “The Apartment” Review | Elliot Ackerman | December 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI say somewhere in the book that he had two composition modalities, fast and slow.
Murder, Sex, and the Writing Life: Norman Mailer’s Biography | Ronald K. Fried | November 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTPreventing disease is derogated, and relegated to the province of alternative modalities.
Why We Can and Must Focus on Preventing Alzheimer’s | David Perlmutter, MD | August 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThese would be relatively specific, possibly including a general timeline and modalities for future negotiation.
In view of the many differences obtaining between them, how otherwise could modalities form a category?
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)A social average of individual modalities interests us more than the incommunicable originality of our deeper life.
A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson | Edouard le RoyBut this division into three modalities or into three states is far from giving the number of the manifestations of being.
Delsarte System of Oratory | VariousThe simplisme of M. Zola is not absolute, as but one of the three constituent modalities is omitted, that one being morality.
Delsarte System of Oratory | VariousThe personal consciousness is only one of the modalities of the general consciousness.
Metapsychical Phenomena | J. Maxwell
British Dictionary definitions for modality
/ (məʊˈdælɪtɪ) /
the condition of being modal
a quality, attribute, or circumstance that denotes mode, mood, or manner
logic the property of a statement of being classified under one of the concepts studied by modal logic, esp necessity or possibility
any physical or electrical therapeutic method or agency
any of the five senses
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