modality vs sensory faculty

modality and sensory faculty both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
modality	Yes	No	No	No
sensory faculty	Yes	No	No	No

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

modality: a particular sense
sensory faculty: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

Other hypernyms of modality include sensation, sense, sentience, sentiency.

modality (noun)	sensory faculty (noun)
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment	the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
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