mysteriousness
Americannoun
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the quality of being full of mystery or suggesting a mystery.
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the quality of being beyond understanding or difficult to figure out.
Example Sentences
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Maybe it's something about the innate mysteriousness and independence of cats, which often behave more like demanding roommates than pets.
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2022
It seems possible that the more you let the public see the royal family, the less they are going to feel that the royals have an untouchable, appealing mysteriousness about them.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022
While Choi was interested in the possible unreality of her characters, Hall’s theme in “Trinity” turns out to be the cast’s irreducible mysteriousness.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2019
In Mann’s photographs, past and future exult in their mysteriousness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2019
Up the street there sounded the crashing of huge sheets of glass and through the blue mysteriousness of the dark the walks shimmered like shattered mirrors.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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