modality | (n) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility, Syn. mode |
modality | (n) a particular sense, Syn. sense modality, sensory system |
modality | (n) a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment |
hearing | (n) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty, Syn. audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing |
mood | (n) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker, Syn. mode, modality |
sight | (n) the ability to see; the visual faculty, Syn. visual modality, visual sense, vision |
smell | (n) the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents, Syn. olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell |
taste | (n) the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth, Syn. gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality |
touch | (n) the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands), Syn. touch modality, sense of touch, cutaneous senses, skin senses |