The way something is woven together or structured; the arrangement and interweaving of parts that create meaning.
From Latin contextus (woven together), the same root as context. This noun form emphasizes the structural aspect of how things fit together.
Medieval and Renaissance scholars loved this word for describing both literal fabric and abstract ideas—the contexture of an argument, the contexture of a tapestry, using weaving as the perfect metaphor for how elements combine into wholes that mean something.
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