texture

The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.

Adjective

  1. Having an intense texture; with a texture that causes a strong (often positive) reaction.
    • I may suck at it, but when I get the nail polish *juuuust right* ¶ gosh, its just so texture~ ¶ whaaaat? noo, Im totally not autistic and stimming with every comfortable texture I can - 2022 April 4, @Unit_9078,...
    • I was hesitant about biting a piece of paper. "W-What if I get a papercut on my tongue?" ¶ "Flower, do you honestly think that the Compact uses paper that sophonts can injure themselves with? [… - 2022 August 24,...
    • i like doing my makeup but i hate how it makes my skin feels after omg its so...texture whats it called ¶ it just isnt smooth anymore omg FUCK U - 2023 March 6, @lukakgae, Twitter, archived from the original on 24 Aug...

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text. Doublet of tessitura.

Forms

more texture most texture

Related

gender

Noun

  1. The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
    • The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.
  2. The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
    • The piece of music had a mainly homophonic texture.
  3. An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
    • The videocard is responsible for drawing every polygon, texture, and particle effect in every game you play. - 2004, Will Smith, Maximum PC Guide to Building a Dream PC (page 97)
  4. The act or art of weaving.
    • Skins, although a natural habit unto all before the invention of texture, was something more unto Adam. - 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and...
  5. Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
    • Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. - a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […],...
    • Of richest texture spread - 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC;...
  6. A tissue.

Forms

textures

Related

context pretext subtext texel text texton textual textural

Derived

architexture echotexture hypertexture intertexture macrotexture microtexture multitexture nanotexture open texture overspray surface texture retexture subtexture texturable textureless texture map texturewise texturisation texturise texturism texturist texturization texturize texturous

Verb

  1. To create or apply a texture.
    • Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall.
    • The floor here is invisible because the game's devs forgot to texture it.

Forms

textures texturing textured