SENSE MODALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sense modality mean? 

• SENSE MODALITY (noun)
  The noun SENSE MODALITY has 1 sense:

1. a particular sense

  Familiarity information: SENSE MODALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSE MODALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A particular sense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

modality; sense modality; sensory system

Hypernyms ("sense modality" is a kind of...):

sensation; sense; sensory faculty; sentience; sentiency (the faculty through which the external world is apprehended)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sense modality"):

sight; vision; visual modality; visual sense (the ability to see; the visual faculty)

somatosense (any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain)

audition; auditory modality; auditory sense; hearing; sense of hearing (the ability to hear; the auditory faculty)

gustation; gustatory modality; sense of taste; taste (the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth)

olfaction; olfactory modality; sense of smell; smell (the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents)