sense modality vs sentience

sense modality and sentience both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sense modality	Yes	No	No	No
sentience	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hypernyms of sense modality include sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency.

sense modality (noun)	sentience (noun)
a particular sense	the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
	the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
	state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness