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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility;
[syn: modality, mode]

2. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker;
[syn: mood, mode, modality]

3. a particular sense;
[syn: modality, sense modality, sensory system]

4. a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Modality \Mo*dal"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. modalit['e].]
   1. The quality or state of being modal.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Logic & Metaph.) 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.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

modality
    n 1: a classification of propositions on the basis of whether
         they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility [syn:
         modality, mode]
    2: verb inflections that express how the action or state is
       conceived by the speaker [syn: mood, mode, modality]
    3: a particular sense [syn: modality, sense modality,
       sensory system]
    4: a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical
       therapeutic treatment