modality

IPA: mʌdˈæɫʌti

The fact of being modal.
(logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
(linguistics) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood
(medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
(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.
(theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
(music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
(sociology) The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory).
(law) The quality of being limited by a condition.

Examples of "modality" in Sentences

This modality is often superior to other imaging techniques.
My most effective secret weapon treatment modality is osteopathic manual medicine.
Q No, I'm just wondering whether the leaders would actually get the word modality in.
Each Introit retains its Gregorian psalmtone verse, whose proper modality is reflected in the harmonized Introit itself.
This modality is especially valuable for detailed imaging of the brain and the spinal cord, for example in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).
This neutralisation or masking of the “could not happen” or “could not have happened” modality is the basis of dewarping, the cancellation of warp (in this case credibility).
I have an inkling that a narrative dynamics based in modality could be factored up to a narrative logic, an informal logic that I'm sorely tempted to call a "suppositional calculus".
Way I see it, mimesis takes place in *any* narrative, suspension-of-disbelief just being the alethic modality aka subjunctivity of "did happen" we surrender to as readers, project onto the text.