Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Modality
Mo·dal′i·ty, n. [Cf. F. modalité.] 1. The quality or state of being modal.
2. (Logic & Metaph.) 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.