mode vs indicative mood

indicative mood vs mode

mode and indicative mood both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mode	Yes	No	No	No
indicative mood	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, indicative mood is a hyponym of mode; that is, indicative mood is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mode:

mode: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
indicative mood: a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact

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

mode (noun)	indicative mood (noun)
how something is done or how it happens	a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
the most frequent value of a random variable
any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
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
a particular functioning condition or arrangement

Difference between mode and indicative mood

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