Modality vs. Mode: What's the Difference?

The fact, state, or quality of being modal.

A manner, way, or method of doing something, experiencing something, or acting

A tendency to conform to a general pattern or belong to a particular group or category.

A particular form or kind

(Logic) The classification of propositions on the basis of whether they assert or deny the possibility, impossibility, contingency, or necessity of their content. Also called mode.

A given condition of functioning; a status or operation

Modalities The ceremonial forms, protocols, or conditions that surround formal agreements or negotiations

The current or customary fashion or style

(Medicine) A therapeutic method or agent, such as surgery, chemotherapy, or electrotherapy, that involves the physical treatment of a disorder.

Any of certain fixed arrangements of the diatonic tones of an octave, as the major and minor scales of Western music.

(Physiology) Any of the various types of sensation, such as vision or hearing.

A patterned arrangement, as the one characteristic of the music of classical Greece or the medieval Christian Church.

The fact of being modal.

(Philosophy) The particular appearance, form, or manner in which an underlying substance, or a permanent aspect or attribute of it, is manifested.

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

See modality.

(linguistics) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood

The arrangement or order of the propositions in a syllogism according to both quality and quantity.

(medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.

(Statistics) The value or item occurring most frequently in a series of observations or statistical data.

Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)

(Mathematics) The number or range of numbers in a set that occurs the most frequently.

(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.

(Geology) The mineral composition of an igneous rock expressed in terms of percentage of the total sample weight or volume.

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

(Physics) Any of numerous patterns of wave motion or vibration.

(music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.

(Grammar) Mood.

(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's structuration theory).

(music) One of several ancient Greek scales.

(legal) The quality of being limited by a condition.

(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.

The quality or state of being modal.

A particular means of accomplishing something.

A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.

A particular state of being, or frame of mind.

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

(statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution

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

A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.

A particular sense

(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.

A method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment

(electronics) A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.

(video games) A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.

(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.

(philosophy) That which exists only as a quality of substance.

(textiles) In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern.

(textiles) The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.

(obsolete) A woman's mantle with a hood.

Style or fashion; popular trend.

Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.

Variety; gradation; degree.

Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.

The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.

Same as Mood.

The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.

The value of the variable in a frequency distribution or probability distribution, at which the probability or frequency has a maximum. The maximum may be local or global. Distributions with only one such maximum are called unimodal; with two maxima, bimodal, and with more than two, multimodal.

How something is done or how it happens;

A particular functioning condition or arrangement;

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

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

Any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

The most frequent value of a random variable