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What is the noun for modality?

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modality

The fact of being modal.
(logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
(linguistics) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood
(medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
(semiotics) 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.
(theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
(music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
(sociology) 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' structuration theory).
Synonyms:

method, procedure, process, manner, style, technique, tone, approach, system, way, practice, plan, tack, routine, form, recipe, formula, fashion, scheme, line, course, mechanism, means, strategy, methodology, arrangement, mode, route, tactics, tactic, programme, road, modus operandi, medium, ways and means, course of action, rubric, program, modus, proceeding, nuts and bolts, channels, schema, tenor, how-to, method of working, the book, custom, red tape, wrinkle … more

Examples:

“Laparoscopy can be used as a diagnostic modality in situations where the cause of abdominal pain is not known.”

“Secondly, all the various kinds of modality can be expressed without the use of the modal verbs.”

“If the linguistic space is sign language, then the deaf infant will acquire language in that modality.”

mode

(music) One of several ancient Greek scales.
(music) One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
A particular means of accomplishing something.
(statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
(mathematics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
Synonyms:

method, way, approach, system, manner, style, technique, methodology, procedure, process, fashion, practice, means, form, plan, routine, custom, mechanism, course, channels, rule, vein, modus, condition, state, quality, book, genre, kind, posture, sort, type, wise, modus operandi, nuts and bolts, strategy, recipe, tack, tactics, formula, line, programme, scheme, policy, program, course of action, tactic, how, MO, regimen … more

Examples:

“The mode of experience I employ here is no different than that of an atheist scholar.”

“He notes that not all languages are suited to the colloquial mode of expression.”

“She had donned one of the new-fashioned dresses of clinging material and high waist said to be the latest mode in Vienna.”

modal

(logic) A modal proposition
(linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
(grammar) modal verb
(graphical user interface) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
Synonyms:

modal verb, modal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb

modelessness

(computing) The property of being modeless.

mode

Style or fashion.
Synonyms:

Examples:

“The mode of experience I employ here is no different than that of an atheist scholar.”

“He notes that not all languages are suited to the colloquial mode of expression.”

“She had donned one of the new-fashioned dresses of clinging material and high waist said to be the latest mode in Vienna.”

modalities

plural of modality
Synonyms:

methods, procedures, processes, manners, styles, techniques, tones, tactics, biologies, systems, approaches, ways, practices, tacks, plans, routines, forms, formulas, recipes, fashions, lines, mechanisms, courses, means, methodologies, strategies, schemes, modes, routes, arrangements, programmes, mediums, modi operandi, roads, courses of action, tenors, how-tos, wrinkles, modi, customs, proceedings, rubrics, red tape, nuts and bolts, channels, schemas, programs … more

Examples:

“Studies on information scent also appear limited to textual cues for vision and do not seem to consider other senses or modalities such as sound.”

“Such an arrangement would address the practical modalities of translation for Irish.”

“And the idea of the other modalities being introduced as complements to the Lydian mode, was added.”

modals

plural of modal
Synonyms:

modal verbs, modal auxiliaries

Examples:

“Interestingly, the modal verb bì appears below the scope of negation and thus patterns with circumstantial modals syntactically.”

“In Section 3.1, we recalled the syntax of epistemic and deontic modals, as well as the syntax of modals when they were used lexically.”

“These preferences often serve to clarify, but a less deft handling leads to tercets like the following, their force buried under prepositions, pronouns and modals.”

modes

plural of mode
Synonyms:

methods, ways, approaches, systems, manners, styles, technique, methodology, procedure, processes, fashion, practice, means, form, plans, routine, customs, mechanism, courses, rules, veins, modi, conditions, states, quality, books, genres, kinds, posture, sorts, types, modi operandi, nuts and bolts, tactics, strategy, recipes, tacks, courses of action, formulae, lines, schemes, policy, hows, programmes, programs, proceedings, regimens, protocol, routes, operations … more

Examples:

“In real warfare, an operational commander will mix and vary his modes depending on the situation.”

“Estimates from several modes can be averaged to decrease the experimental error.”

“This variety of reading arises chiefly from the different modes of pointing the Hebrew words.”

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