[mass noun]modal quality 调式 the harmony had a touch of modality. 这和声是有一点调式的。
a particular mode in which something exists or is experienced or expressed 形式,样式,形态,方式 ■a particular method or procedure 方法,手段;步骤 they addressed questions concerning the modalities of Soviet troop withdrawals. 他们着手应对有关苏联军队撤离步骤的问题。 ■a particular form of sensory perception 感觉模式 the visual and auditory modalities. 视听模式。
语源
early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin modalitas, from modalis (see modal)