Mood vs. Modality

Moodnoun

A mental or emotional state, composure.

Moodnoun

A sullen mental state; a bad mood.

Moodnoun

A disposition to do something.

Moodnoun

A prevalent atmosphere or feeling.

Moodnoun

Courage, heart, valor; also vim and vigor.

Moodnoun

(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

Moodnoun

Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

Moodnoun

Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.

Moodnoun

Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.

Moodnoun

a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;

Moodnoun

the prevailing psychological state;

Moodnoun

verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

Modalitynoun

The fact of being modal.

Modalitynoun

(logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.

Modalitynoun

(linguistics) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood

Modalitynoun

(medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.

Modalitynoun

Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)

Modalitynoun

(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.

Modalitynoun

(theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.

Modalitynoun

(music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.

Modalitynoun

(sociology) The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens' structuration theory).

Modalitynoun

(legal) The quality of being limited by a condition.

Modalitynoun

The quality or state of being modal.

Modalitynoun

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.

Modalitynoun

a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

Modalitynoun

verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

Modalitynoun

a particular sense

Modalitynoun

a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment