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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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.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024
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
“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
In secondary school she had been the bubbly tomboy, very tall and skinny and straightforward, not armed with the mysteriousness of girls.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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