auditory sense vs modality

auditory sense and modality both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
auditory sense	Yes	No	No	No
modality	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

auditory sense (noun)	modality (noun)
the ability to hear; the auditory faculty	a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
	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