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{{Wiktionary|modality}}Modality can refer to:

Humanities

In law: the basis of legal argumentation in United States constitutional law
In theology: Modality (theology): the organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
In music, the subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes (e.g., Ionian).
In sociology, modality is a concept in Anthony Giddens structuration theory.

Modality (semiotics), the types of sign and the extent to which any set of signs is real or unreal.
Linguistic modality, the subject concerning so-called modal auxiliary verbs like can, must, and should, customarily used to modify the meaning of other verbs, to express possibility (and impossibility, necessity, contingency, etc.), permissibility (and obligation, proscription, etc.), probability (and improbability, etc.). Compare grammatical mood.

Stimulus modality, a type of physical phenomenon that one can sense, such as temperature and sound.
In cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology and the philosophy of perception, any of the qualitatively distinct types of sensation, such as sight, hearing, acceleration, heat and cold.
In psychotherapy, a method of therapeutic approach.
In medical imaging, any of the various types of equipment or probes used to acquire images of the body, such as radiography, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging.
Any method of therapy that involves therapeutic treatment.

Transportation modality
modal logic, a form of logic which distinguishes between (logically) "necessary truths" and "contingent truths". Related topics include possibility, impossibility, actuality, and related predicates.
modality (human-computer interaction), a path of communication between the human and the computer, such as vision or touch.
In computer science and particularly computer vision, the type of input. For example, black-and-white, color and infrared represent three different modalities for the acquisition of an image.

In advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419 Scams), the method of funds transfers. Often used as a key-word in scam baiting.