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Complexion vs Texture - What's the difference?

complexion | texture |

As nouns the difference between complexion and texture

is that complexion is the combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry while texture is the feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.

As a verb texture is

to create or apply a texture.

complexion

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Alternative forms

* complection (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.
  • *, III.10:
  • *:Ne ever is he wont on ought to feed / But todes and frogs, his pasture poysonous, / Which in his cold complexion doe breed / A filthy blood.
  • The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.
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  • *
  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
  • (lb) The outward appearance of something.
  • Outlook, attitude, or point of view.
  • *1844 ,
  • *:But the purely marginal jottings, done with no eye to the Memorandum Book, have a distinct complexion , and not only a distinct purpose, but none at all; this it is which imparts to them a value.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * complect * complex * complexional

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    texture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • (arts) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
    • The piece of music had a mainly smooth texture .
  • (computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface,
  • (obsolete) The act or art of weaving.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
  • * Thomson
    • Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
    (Milton)
  • (biology, obsolete) A tissue.

    • Related terms

    * context * pretext * subtext * texel * texton * text * textual

    Verb

    (textur)
  • to create or apply a texture
    • ''Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall.

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