modality

n. condition of being modal; mode, way of doing something, manner; form of sensation (taste, touch, smell, etc.)

Modality can refer to: Humanities:The basis of legal argumentation in United States constitutional law.Modality (theology), the organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.In music, the subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes (e.g., Ionian).In sociology, modality is a concept in Anthony Giddens structuration theory.
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Noun
1. a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
(synonym) mode
(hypernym) logical relation
2. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
(synonym) mood, mode
(hypernym) grammatical relation
(hyponym) indicative mood, indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood
3. a particular sense
(synonym) sense modality, sensory system
(hypernym) sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
(hyponym) sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality
4. a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
(hypernym) treatment
(hyponym) diathermy
(part-holonym) physical therapy, physiotherapy, physiatrics

(n.)
The quality or state of being modal.
  

(n.)
A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.
  

A method of treatment. For example, surgery and chemotherapy are treatment modalities.