intervention vs modality

modality vs intervention

intervention and modality both are nouns.

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

As nouns, modality is a hyponym of intervention; that is, modality is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than intervention:

intervention: care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
modality: a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment

Other hyponyms of intervention include medical aid, medical care, massage, detoxification, chiropractic, fomentation, naturopathy, naprapathy, orthodontic treatment, orthoptics, osteopathy, osteoclasis, acupuncture, stylostixis, acupressure, G-Jo, shiatsu, autogenic therapy, autogenic training, autogenics, hydropathy, hydrotherapy, rest-cure.

intervention (noun)	modality (noun)
the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)	a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
(law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings	a particular sense
care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)	a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others	verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

Difference between intervention and modality

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