Definitions for modalities

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modalities mo·dal·i·ty

Spelling: [moh-dal-i-tee]

IPA: /moʊˈdæl ɪ ti/

Modalities is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 952 anagrams from letters in modalities (adeiilmost).

Definitions for modalities

noun

1. the quality or state of being modal.
2. an attribute or circumstance that denotes mode or manner.
3. Also called mode. Logic. the classification of propositions according to whether they are contingently true or false, possible, impossible, or necessary.
4. Medicine/Medical. the application of a therapeutic agent, usually a physical therapeutic agent.
5. one of the primary forms of sensation, as vision or touch.

Origin of modalities

From the Medieval Latin word modālitās, dating back to 1610-20. See modal, -ity

Examples for modalities

These would be relatively specific, possibly including a general timeline and modalities for future negotiation.

In view of the many differences obtaining between them, how otherwise could modalities form a category?

It is clear, he says, that the modalities of the action of the blind are explained by spatial representations.

The personal consciousness is only one of the modalities of the general consciousness.

But this division into three modalities or into three states is far from giving the number of the manifestations of being.

To sum up, the modalities of matter are supplied by the feminine germ.