- [countable] (formal)
the particular way in which something exists, is experienced or is done 形式；样式；方式；形态 - [uncountable] (
linguistics 语言学 the idea expressed by modals 情态 - [countable] (
biology 生物 the kind of senses that the body uses to experience things 感觉模式；感觉形式 the visual and auditory modalities 视觉和听觉
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin modalitas, from modalis, from Latin modus ‘measure’, from an Indo-European root shared by mete; compare with mood in its grammatical sense.