audition vs modality

audition and modality both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
audition	Yes	No	Yes	No
modality	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, modality is a hypernym of audition; that is, modality is a word with a broader meaning than audition:

Other hypernyms of audition include sense modality, sensory system, exteroception.

audition (noun)	modality (noun)
a test of the suitability of a performer	a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
the ability to hear; the auditory faculty	a particular sense
	a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
	verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

audition (verb)	modality (verb)
perform in order to get a role