modality vs indicative

indicative vs modality

modality and indicative both are nouns.

modality is not an adjective while indicative is an adjective.

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

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

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

modality (noun)	indicative (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

modality (adjective)	indicative (adjective)
	relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements
	(usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly

Difference between modality and indicative

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