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modality (n.)
[modality 词源字典]
1610s, from Old French
modalité
or directly from Medieval Latin
modalitatem
(nominative
modalitas
) "a being modal," from
modalis
(see
modal
). Related:
Modalities
.
[modality etymology, modality origin, 英语词源]