Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being mysterious; obscurity; the quality of being hidden from the understanding and calculated to excite curiosity or wonder.
- noun That which is mysterious or obscure.
- noun The behavior or manner of one who wishes or affects to imply a mystery: as, he told us with much mysteriousness to wait and see.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being mysterious.
- noun rare Something mysterious; a mystery.
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- noun The quality of being
mysterious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The mysteriousness is the point, what makes it koan-like.
Not over yet ... Frank Wilson 2008
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I may be able to very soon, and clear up all this mysteriousness, that is worrying me so.
Frank Roscoe's Secret Or, the Darewell Chums in the Woods Allen Chapman
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This sort of mysteriousness, which is always so becoming in a hero, threw a fresh grace in Catherine's imagination around his person and manners, and increased her anxiety to know more of him.
Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1818
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This sort of mysteriousness, which is always so becoming in a hero, threw a fresh grace in Catherine's imagination around his person and manners, and increased her anxiety to know more of him.
Northanger Abbey 1818
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This sort of mysteriousness, which is always so becoming in a hero, threw a fresh grace in Catherine's imagination around his person and manners, and increased her anxiety to know more of him.
Northanger Abbey 1798
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And our own growth into love has got to be a growth into that kind of mysteriousness, that kind of causeless upsurge of compassion towards the stranger.
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And our own growth into love has got to be a growth into that kind of mysteriousness, that kind of causeless upsurge of compassion towards the stranger.
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And this isn't a 'mysteriousness' objection; it's just good sense.
More on Natural Evil 2005
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And this isn't a 'mysteriousness' objection; it's just good sense.
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
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It gives you an odd mysteriousness which is very attractive. '
The Magician 1919
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