Other forms: textures
Texture is the way something feels — in the mouth, or under the hand. A smooth texture, the texture of it, texture and flavour.
In food it is half the experience and the part people notice only when it is wrong: soggy pastry, gritty sauce. Chefs work at contrast of texture as deliberately as at flavour. In cloth and surfaces it means the weave or grain. Figuratively it means the quality of a whole thing: the texture of daily life. Note textured; and that texture and textile and text are all from the Latin for weaving.
1nountasteThe way something feels in the mouth or under the hand.
“I love the smooth, creamy texture of this soup.”
2nounoverallThe overall quality of something.
“The texture of the whole book changes in roughly chapter nine.”
texture is a quality of feel.
Latin textura means a weaving, from texere, to weave. Text, textile and context are the same weaving, so a text is literally something woven.
Proto-Indo-European
*tetḱ-
Latin
textūra
Middle French
texture
English, today
texture
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French texture, from Latin textūra. Borrowed from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text. a doublet of tessitura.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Smell & Taste