sense of hearing vs modality

sense of hearing and modality both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sense of hearing	Yes	No	No	No
modality	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

sense of hearing (noun)	modality (noun)
the ability to hear; the auditory faculty	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