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Word: modality (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
  • linguistics the inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood
  • logic the classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode
  • medicine any method of therapy that involves therapeutic treatment
  • music the subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes
  • 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
  • sociology a concept in Anthony Giddens structuration theory
  • theology the organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations
  • the state of being modal

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