modality vs intervention

intervention vs modality

modality and intervention both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of modality include treatment.

modality (noun)	intervention (noun)
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment	the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
a particular sense	(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 classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility	care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker	the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
	a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

Difference between modality and intervention

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