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Noun modality has 4 senses
  1. modality, mode - a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
    --1 is a kind of logical relation
  2. mood, mode, modality - verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
    --2 is a kind of grammatical relation
    --2 has particulars:
     indicative mood, indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood; subjunctive mood, subjunctive; optative mood, optative; imperative mood, imperative, jussive mood; interrogative mood, interrogative
  3. modality, sense modality, sensory system - a particular sense
    --3 is a kind of sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
    --3 has particulars:
     sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality; somatosense; hearing, audition, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality; taste, gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality; smell, sense of smell, olfaction, olfactory modality
  4. modality - a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
    --4 is a kind of     treatment
    --4 is a part of physical therapy, physiotherapy, physiatrics
    --4 has particulars: diathermy
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