olfactory modality vs modality

olfactory modality and modality both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of olfactory modality include sense modality, sensory system, exteroception.

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