Linguistic term referring to the grammatical category expressing possibility, necessity, obligation, permission, etc. Used in academic or technical contexts.
Modality is a grammatical category that expresses the speaker's attitude or judgment.
Compound of 叙法 (johō, 'mood') and 性 (sei, 'nature' or '-ness'), forming a term for grammatical modality. The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with this linguistic meaning.