ETYM Cf. French modal. Related to Mode.
1. Of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode.
2. Relating to or expressing the mood of a verb.
3. (Statistics) Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; SYN. average.
Pertaining to or having form rather than substance. modality, n .
average · diatonic scale · grammatical relation · normal · modal auxiliary · modal auxiliary verb