Mood vs. Modality — What's the Difference?

A particular state of mind or emotion

The fact, state, or quality of being modal.

A pervading impression of an observer

A tendency to conform to a general pattern or belong to a particular group or category.

An instance or spell of sulking or angry behavior

(Logic) The classification of propositions on the basis of whether they assert or deny the possibility, impossibility, contingency, or necessity of their content. Also called mode.

Inclination; disposition

Modalities The ceremonial forms, protocols, or conditions that surround formal agreements or negotiations

A property of verbs in which the speaker's attitude toward the factuality or likelihood of the action or condition expressed.

(Medicine) A therapeutic method or agent, such as surgery, chemotherapy, or electrotherapy, that involves the physical treatment of a disorder.

A category or set of verb forms or inflections used to indicate such an attitude. In English, the indicative mood is used to make factual statements, the subjunctive mood to indicate doubt or unlikelihood, and the imperative mood to express a command.

(Physiology) Any of the various types of sensation, such as vision or hearing.

(Logic) The arrangement of statement types in a syllogism.

The fact of being modal.

A mental or emotional state, composure.

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

Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).

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

A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

(medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.

A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.

Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)

A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.

(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.

(slang) A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.

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

(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.

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

(slang) Used to express that the speaker finds something very relatable.

(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's structuration theory).

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

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

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.

The quality or state of being modal.

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

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.

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

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

The prevailing psychological state;

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

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

A particular sense

A method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment