textual.
Of or pertaining to text.
Meaning & usage
Of or pertaining to text. Of or pertaining to textuality.
Of or pertaining to text. Of or pertaining to text as opposed to other document elements.
I see that the editor revised the document's metadata, headers, and images, but I don't see any textual changes.
Pertaining to text messages, by analogy with sexual: textual harassment, textual intercourse; compare sexting.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English textewell, textueel, textuel, textuele, tixtuel (“learned in texts, bookish”), possibly from Latin textuālis; also compare Middle French textuele; or perhaps a coinage by Chaucer from Latin textus and Middle English -el. English spelling conformed to Latin from late 15c. By surface analysis, text + -ual.
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