modality vs subjunctive

subjunctive vs modality

modality and subjunctive both are nouns.

modality is not an adjective while subjunctive is an adjective.

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

As nouns, subjunctive is a hyponym of modality; that is, subjunctive 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
subjunctive: a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible

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

modality (noun)	subjunctive (noun)
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment	a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible
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)	subjunctive (adjective)
	relating to a mood of verbs

Difference between modality and subjunctive

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