common mood vs modality

modality vs common mood

common mood and modality both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
common mood	Yes	No	No	No
modality	Yes	No	No	No

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

common mood: a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
modality: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

Other hypernyms of common mood include mode, mood.

common mood (noun)	modality (noun)
a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact	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

Difference between common mood and modality

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