modality vs olfactory modality

olfactory modality vs modality

modality and olfactory modality both are nouns.

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

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

modality: a particular sense
olfactory modality: the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents

Other hyponyms of modality include sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense, somatosense, audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing, gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste, olfaction, sense of smell, smell.

modality (noun)	olfactory modality (noun)
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment	the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
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 olfactory modality

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