modality vs declarative mood

declarative mood vs modality

modality and declarative mood both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of modality include common mood, declarative, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood, subjunctive, subjunctive mood, optative, optative mood, imperative, imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood, interrogative, interrogative mood.

modality (noun)	declarative mood (noun)
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment	a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
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 modality and declarative mood

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