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
“Outer Range” plays like an epic indie film that savors its mysteriousness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2022
“Explaining it away,” you betray the mysteriousness of the process, which plays out differently from artist to artist, and from day-to-day.
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2020
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
“Yes, but there is more to it than that,” he said, with maddening mysteriousness.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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