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The quality or state of being modal.

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  1. n. The quality or state of being modal.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
  4. n. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
  5. n. a particular sense
  6. n. a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
  7. 1. The quality or state of being modal. 2. (Logic & Metaph.) 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.
  8. A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view underwhich an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, thequality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.
  9. n:100 n. a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility n. a particular sense n. a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment