humour vs modality

humour

noun
  • A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. 

  • The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. 

  • Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. 

  • Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour. 

verb
  • To pacify by indulging. 

modality

noun
  • The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood 

  • The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory). 

  • Any of the senses (such as sight or taste) 

  • The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations. 

  • The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes. 

  • The quality of being limited by a condition. 

  • A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre. 

  • The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode. 

  • The fact of being modal. 

  • A method of diagnosis or therapy. 

How often have the words humour and modality occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )