modality

English Thesaurus

1. a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment (noun.act)

hypernym	:	intervention, treatment,
definition	:	care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) (noun.act)

hyponym	:	diathermy,
definition	:	a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents (noun.act)

part meronym	:	physiatrics, physical therapy, physiotherapy,
definition	:	therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities (noun.act)

2. a particular sense (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency,
definition	:	the faculty through which the external world is apprehended (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense,
definition	:	the ability to see; the visual faculty (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	somatosense,
definition	:	any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing,
definition	:	the ability to hear; the auditory faculty (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste,
definition	:	the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell,
definition	:	the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents (noun.cognition)

3. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker (noun.linkdef)

hypernym	:	grammatical relation,
definition	:	a linguistic relation established by grammar (noun.linkdef)

hyponym	:	common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood,
definition	:	a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact (noun.linkdef)

hyponym	:	subjunctive, subjunctive mood,
definition	:	a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible (noun.linkdef)

hyponym	:	optative, optative mood,
definition	:	a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs (noun.linkdef)

hyponym	:	imperative, imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood,
definition	:	a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior (noun.linkdef)

hyponym	:	interrogative, interrogative mood,
definition	:	some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood (noun.linkdef)

4. a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility (noun.linkdef)

hypernym	:	logical relation,
definition	:	a relation between propositions (noun.linkdef)

5. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker (noun.linkdef)

derivation	:	modal,
definition	:	relating to or expressing the mood of a verb (adj.pert)

derivation	:	modal,
definition	:	relating to or expressing the mood of a verb (adj.pert)