modality vs somatosense

somatosense vs modality

modality and somatosense both are nouns.

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

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

modality: a particular sense
somatosense: any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain

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

modality (noun)	somatosense (noun)
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment	any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain
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 somatosense

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