Meaning

11 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The fact of being modal.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.

    Modalität

    a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

  3. (countable, uncountable)The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker.

    verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

  4. (countable, uncountable)A method of diagnosis or therapy.

    a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment

  5. (countable, uncountable)Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)

  6. (countable, uncountable)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.

  7. (countable, uncountable)The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.

  8. (countable, uncountable)The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.

  9. (countable, uncountable)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).

  10. (countable, uncountable)The quality of being limited by a condition.

  11. (countable, uncountable)That whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable

Examples

2 sentences
  1. If you like creoles, maybe read the document "Variation and Change in Virgin Islands Dutch Creole: Tense, Modality and Aspect."

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  2. If you like creoles, maybe read the dissertation "Tense, Aspect and Modality in a Radical Creole: The Case of Saamáka."

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
state of being modal:
Русский
By meaning 1
state of being modal:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
classification of propositions; mode:

Origin

Borrowed from French modalité.

Borrowed from French modalité.

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Forms

plural: modalities
Singularmodality
Pluralmodalities

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a particular sense:sense modalitysensory system
  • a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility:mode
  • verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker:moodmode

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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