Modality

Quick meaning: Modality is a noun meaning The fact of being modal.

Meaning

The fact of being modal.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Exercise training is a therapeutic modality that should be considered for all patients with ventricular dysfunction

Modalities of structuration, then, are simply ways in which rules and resources are knowingly used by people in interactions.

The four major modalities used in patients with solid tumors are (a) surgery, (b) radiation therapy, (c) chemotherapy, and (d) immunotherapy

In turn, social structure and human interactions are interrelated through three aspects of modality: interpretive schema, facility, and norm.

Word Forms

• modalities

Synonyms for modality

Depending on context, synonyms include mood, mode.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mood, mode, condition, methodology, paradigm, technique.

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