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modality
1. A tendency to conform to a general pattern or to belong to a particular group or category.
2. The classification of propositions on the basis of whether they assert or deny the possibility, impossibility, contingency, or necessity of their content.
3. A therapeutic method or agent, such as surgery, chemotherapy, or electrotherapy, that involves the physical treatment of a medical disorder.
4. In physiology, any of the various types of sensation; such as, vision or hearing.
5. Etymology: directly from or via French; from medieval Latin modalis which came from Latin modus, "measure".
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