Modality and Patterns

noun

• A classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility.
  • synonyms: mode
• Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker.
  • synonyms: mood, mode
• A particular sense.
  • synonyms: sense modality, sensory system
• A method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment. .

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The quality or state of being modal.