karma vs modality

karma

noun
  • A distinctive feeling, aura, or atmosphere. 

  • The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth. 

  • A score assigned to a user or post on some discussion forums, indicating popularity or perceived value. 

  • A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate. 

modality

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

  • 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). 

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

  • The fact of being modal. 

  • A method of diagnosis or therapy. 

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