Mysteriousness

Synonyms for "mysteriousness" (20 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (4)

Noun(2 words)
ambiguityaura of mystery

Strong matches (6)

Noun(3 words)
enigmatic atmosphereenigmatic qualitymystery

Related words (10)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

4 entries

More specific

7 entries
aesthetic mysterycrypticnessdata insufficiencyenigmaticitymeasurement errornarrative ambiguityunexplained variance

Collocations

6 entries
degree of mysteriousnessheightened mysteriousnessintrinsic mysteriousnesslevel of mysteriousnessmysteriousness in scienceperceived mysteriousness

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

1651, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-Seven Sermons for the Summer Half-Year, Sermon II, Part II in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year, London: Tyler & Royston, 1668, p. 14, https://books.google.ca/books?id=heNBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false This may seem strange; and indeed it is so: and it is one of the great mysteriousnesses of the Gospel.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

His children had urged him to travel: Mary Chivers had felt sure it would do him good to go abroad and "see the galleries." The very mysteriousness of such a cure made her the more confident of its efficacy.

Source: wiktionary

And all this is not changed by adding "mysterious" experiences to "manifest" ones, self-confident in the wisdom that recognizes a secret compartment in things, reserved for the initiated, and holds the key, O mysteriousness without mystery, O piling up of information! It, it, it!

Source: wiktionary

More for "mysteriousness"