modality vs fact mood

fact mood vs modality

modality and fact mood both are nouns.

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

As nouns, fact mood is a hyponym of modality; that is, fact 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
fact mood: a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact

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

modality (noun)	fact 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 fact mood

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