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mysteriousness

[mi-steer-ee-uhs-nis]

noun

  1. the quality of being full of mystery or suggesting a mystery.

  2. the quality of being beyond understanding or difficult to figure out.



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“Yes, but there is more to it than that,” he said, with maddening mysteriousness.

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Some people criticized Ozzy for showing this side of himself because as a rock star, there was a certain kind of persona or mysteriousness people thought he should hold on to.

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Spending time in the space itself feels like sitting in on a conversation between Bayne and Cortez, which is a rarity, given the intentional mysteriousness around them as a couple.

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Babitz biographer Anolik takes them both on in a dual biography that hopes to break the seal of Didion’s mysteriousness and Babitz’s connection to her through their shared time in L.A., where their friendship was formed and broken.

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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.

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