aspect vs modality

aspect

noun
  • A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding. 

  • Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass. 

  • One's appearance or expression. 

  • In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy. 

  • The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective. 

  • The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view. 

  • The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope. 

  • Any specific feature, part, or element of something. 

  • The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions. 

  • The visual indication of a colour light (or mechanical) signal as displayed to the driver. With colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green. 

  • Prospect; outlook. 

  • A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something. 

verb
  • To have a particular aspect or type of aspect. 

  • To channel a divine being. 

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 aspect and modality occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )