modality : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: modality	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for modality
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
modality n a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility Synonym(s): modality, mode verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker Synonym(s): mood, mode, modality a particular sense Synonym(s): modality, sense modality, sensory system a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Modality \Modal"ity\, n. [Cf. F. modalit[82].] 1. The quality or state of being modal. 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.