modality

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Synonyms: morality, sodality, molality, nodality, mortality, totality, vocality, locality, tonality, mobility, motility

Antonyms: morality, sodality, molality, nodality, mortality, totality, vocality, locality, tonality, mobility, motility

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Noun

1. The fact of being [[modal]].
2. {{lb|en|logic}} The [[classification]] of [[proposition]]s on the basis on whether they claim [[possibility]], [[impossibility]], [[contingency]] or [[necessity]]; [[mode]].
3. {{lb|en|grammar}} The [[inflection]] of a [[verb]] that shows how its action is [[conceived]] by the speaker.
4. {{lb|en|medicine}} A [[method]] of diagnosis or [[therapy]].
5. Any of the [[senses]] (such as [[sight]] or [[taste]])
6. {{lb|en|semiotics}} A particular way in which the [[information]] is to be [[encode]]d 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. {{lb|en|theology}} The [[organization]] and [[structure]] of the [[church]], as distinct from [[sodality]] or [[parachurch]] organizations.
8. {{lb|en|music}} The subject concerning certain [[diatonic scale]]s known as musical [[mode]]s.
9. {{lb|en|sociology}} The way in which [[infrastructure]] and [[knowledge]] of how to [[use]] it give rise to a [[meaningful]] [[pattern]] of [[interaction]] (a concept in {{w|Anthony Giddens}}'s [[structuration]] theory).
10. {{lb|en|legal}} The quality of being limited by a condition.
11. {{lb|en|astrology}} That whether a [[zodiac sign]] is [[cardinal]], [[fixed]] or [[mutable]]

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