noun
Meaning 1
The fact of being modal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
modality
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Pronunciation
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rhymes with -ælɪti
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CMU ARPABET: M AH0 D AE1 L AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mood
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A method of diagnosis or therapy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, semiotics
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noun
Meaning 7
The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, religion, theology
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noun
Meaning 8
The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 9
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
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noun
Meaning 10
The quality of being limited by a condition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 11
That whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: astrology, human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Meaning 12
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: treatment, intervention
Narrower terms: diathermy
noun
Meaning 13
a particular sense
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sense modality, sensory system
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
Narrower terms: 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
noun
Meaning 14
verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mood, mode
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: grammatical relation
Narrower terms: indicative mood, indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood, subjunctive mood, subjunctive, optative mood, optative, imperative mood, imperative, jussive mood, imperative form, interrogative mood, interrogative
noun
Meaning 15
a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mode
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: logical relation
History
Etymology
Etymology tree French modal Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itātemlbor. Old French -ité Middle French -ité French -ité French modalitébor. English modality Borrowed from French modalité.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: modalitat — state of being modal
- Czech: modalita — state of being modal
- Finnish: modaalisuus — state of being modal
- French: modalité — state of being modal
- Georgian: მოდალურობა (modaluroba) — state of being modal
- Hindi: प्रकारता (prakārtā) — state of being modal
- Hindi: वृत्तित्व (vŕttitva) — state of being modal
- Hindi: निश्चयमात्रा (niścaymātrā) — state of being modal
- Hindi: बहुलकता (bahulaktā) — state of being modal
- Mongolian: баймж (bajmž) — state of being modal
- Portuguese: modalidade — state of being modal
- Romanian: modalitate — state of being modal
- Russian: модальность (modalʹnostʹ) — state of being modal
- Spanish: modalidad — state of being modal
- Ukrainian: мода́льність (modálʹnistʹ) — state of being modal
- German: Modalität — classification of propositions; mode
- Hungarian: módozat — classification of propositions; mode
- Kazakh: модальділік (modaldılık) — classification of propositions; mode
- Portuguese: modalidade — classification of propositions; mode
- Finnish: menetelmä — method of diagnosis or therapy
- Finnish: toimintamuoto — whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable
- Finnish: laatu — whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable
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