Context and Event

Context

Context noun - The circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded.

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Event and context are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Event" instead a noun "Context".

Nearby Words: contexture, contextual

Event noun - Something that happens.

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Context and event are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Context" instead a noun "Event".

Nearby Words: eventual, eventful, eventuality, eventless

particular	particular context	particular event
similar	similar context	similar event
specific	specific context	specific event
formal	formal context	formal event
Other adjectives: certain, current, original, actual, real, serious, social, important, supernatural, new, dramatic, significant, unrelated, earlier, previous, historical.

Sometimes, though, an event is just as nonsensical in context as it is when summarized (maybe even more nonsensical), and we say it Makes Just As Much Sense in Context.

Source: Makes Just as Much Sense in Context
The event of the Alchemical Exalted (or Autochthonians in general) entering Creation would play out like this in scenarios with a military context.

Source: Outside-Context Problem
See also Chewbacca Defense, when a red herring is used to baffle your opponents, and Non Sequitur, when an event does not make sense in context.

Source: Red Herring

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