sense of taste vs modality

sense of taste and modality both are nouns.

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

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

sense of taste: the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
modality: a particular sense

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

sense of taste (noun)	modality (noun)
the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth	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