Noun
The quality or state of being modal.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously. Emil Cioran
People in new environments always produce the new preceptual modality without any difficulty or awareness of change. It is later that the psychic and social realignments baffle societies. Marshall McLuhan
I've always felt a connection to kids who go to church. I think I'm fundamentally a religiously oriented and religiously minded person. It's very easy for me to communicate with people who have that same grounding, that same vocabulary or modality of thinking and expressing themselves. Ayad Akhtar
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. Charles Olson
I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture. William Gibson
Although originally the goal was to catch and surf the waves, a racing modality has emerged with similarities to kayaking. Source: Internet