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What is the noun for contex?

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context
  1. The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
  2. (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
  3. (archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
  4. (mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
  5. (logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “These two cases, in the context of the changing face of Detroit, present an anatomy of the evolution of this art form.”
      “So in the context of this new information, Charlie's actions now appear to make sense.”
      “What specifically was the context under which those controversial words were said?”
contexture
  1. A weaving together of parts.
  2. A body or structure made by interweaving or assembling parts.
  3. The arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing.
  4. The structural character of a thing.
  5. Context
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Putrefaction then attenuates this substance, and breaks its contexture.”
      “The sealing elements may be formed from a material contexture, such as knitted wire cloths, woven fabrics, ceramic fabrics and the like.”
      “So spare me your showy concern for sensitivity by using the appropriate contexture.”
contextuality
  1. (uncountable) The condition of being contextual
  2. (countable) The extent to which something is contextual
  3. Examples:
    1. “The purpose of this study was to research the influence of contextuality on CMC on Internet forums.”
      “Here we see Heidegger critically pointing the finger at Nietzsche for his radical individualism, which equated freedom with a solitude that denied our worldly contextuality.”
contextualization
  1. The act or process of putting information into context; making sense of information from the situation or location in which the information was found.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A larger historical contextualization of these seemingly isolated events would have filled in such a gap.”
      “Without biographical contextualization, it would be difficult to know how to answer these questions.”
      “The ultimate goal is to articulate, provisionally, a new theoretical and historical contextualization of early modern prosody.”
contextomy
  1. The practice (or act) of quoting a person (or people) out of context, often with the aim of winning an argument, often intending obfuscation of the quote's actual meaning.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A subtle variation on the straw-man argument goes by the tongue-twisting name of contextomy.”
      “In these cases of contextomy, a view to the original context often renders the quotation utterly meaningless, and even counterproductive.”
      “The Daily Caller writer introduced both the contextomy fallacy and provided a textbook example of confirmation bias fallacy in his declaration.”
contextualist
  1. A proponent of contextualism, or the importance of context
contextualism
  1. (philosophy) Any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context
  2. Examples:
    1. “Some philosophers will find implausible the claim that contextualism is the cure for relativism.”
      “Taking fallibilism seriously heads off the charge that contextualism encourages strongly anti-rationalist positions such as relativism.”
      “There is a social dimension to contextualism that we have ignored with dreadful results.”
contextualisation
  1. Alternative form of contextualization
  2. Examples:
    1. “I have argued that alternative worship is one strategy for contextualisation and resistance in postmodernity.”
      “Such contextualisation is necessary in order to provide a comprehensive account of Mawson's life and achievements.”
      “Although there is much to disagree with in this book, I love it because it is a wonderful case study in the contextualisation of the gospel.”
contextualizer
  1. One who, or that which, contextualizes.
contextualizations
  1. plural of contextualization
contextualisations
  1. plural of contextualisation
contextualizers
  1. plural of contextualizer
contextualists
  1. plural of contextualist
contextualisms
  1. plural of contextualism
contextualities
  1. plural of contextuality
contextures
contextomies
  1. plural of contextomy
contexts
  1. plural of context
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  3. Examples:
    1. “What might be a lot of fun at a rum-fuelled street party makes for a sometimes wearing experience in other contexts.”
      “I noted previously that it lifted quotes from their contexts out of the books of textual-criticism scholars.”
      “In abstraction from all such contexts, epistemic questions simply get no purchase.”
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