Definitions for modality

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modality mo·dal·i·ty

Spelling: [moh-dal-i-tee]

IPA: /moʊˈdæl ɪ ti/

Modality is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 282 anagrams from letters in modality (adilmoty).

Definitions for modality

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 modality

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

Examples for modality

modality, should not occupy even third rank of existence, vi.

Baumeister and Thomasius also recognise four forms of modality.

Third rank of existence should not be occupied by modality, vi.

As to modality, propositions are divided into Pure and Modal.

In what manner this gigantic process of social expropriation will be achieved, and under what modality, eludes all surmise.

Rimbaud, when right, is so because he cannot be bothered to exist in any other modality.

An "idea" has little value apart from the modality of the mind which receives it.

But if modality, taken in itself, be not a reality, why then make of it a category?

Rank third, of existence, should not be occupied by modality, vi.

Very well, he could use that modality to get out from under.