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Sensory vs Modality - What's the difference?

sensory | modality |

As nouns the difference between sensory and modality

is that sensory is (biology|dated) sensorium while modality is the fact of being modal.

As an adjective sensory

is of the senses or sensation.

sensory

English

Adjective

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  • Of the senses or sensation.
  • Derived terms

    * extrasensory * multisensory * supersensory

    Noun

    (sensories)
  • (biology, dated) sensorium
  • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * (wikipedia "sensory")

    modality

    English

    Noun

    (modalities)
  • the fact of being modal
  • (logic) the classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode
  • (linguistics) the inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood
  • (medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
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  • Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
  • (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
  • (theology) the organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations
  • (music) the subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes
  • (sociology) a concept in structuration theory
  • See also

    * * (Linguistic modality)