visual modality vs modality

visual modality and modality both are nouns.

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

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

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

visual modality (noun)	modality (noun)
the ability to see; the visual 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