EGAVE

modality

About 2.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The fact of being modal.
  2. noun The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
  3. noun The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker.
  4. noun A method of diagnosis or therapy.
  5. noun Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
  6. noun 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.
  7. noun The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
  8. noun The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.

Similar words

mood mode sense modality sensory system condition methodology paradigm technique pattern procedure

Often followed by

of for in is and to that therapy or

Word family

modalities

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