modality Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
    mode.
  2. noun verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
    mood; mode.
  3. noun a particular sense
    sensory system; sense modality.
  4. noun a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment

WordNet

Mo*dal"i*ty noun
Etymology
Cf. F. modalité.
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being modal.
  2. (Logic & Metaph.) A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.

Webster 1913