mysteriousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mysteriousness
Noun
  • With a multigenerational workforce and increasingly younger workforce seeking transparency, consider creating cultures where ambiguity is discussed openly, not masked with false certainty.
    Arthi Rabikrisson, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • Lynch opened up a whole new space where ambiguity wasn’t just tolerated — it was embraced.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • With the entire dataset open to the public, the team hopes the fresh eyes, as well as graduate and undergraduate astronomers, will uncover something new and unlock clues about cosmic mysteries like dark matter and the physics of the early universe.
    Jay Kakade June 22, New Atlas, 22 June 2025
  • But two new studies — which researchers say are among the biggest paleoanthropology papers of the year — detail how scientists were able to extract genetic material from the fossil and help unravel this biological mystery.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • The movie’s psychological framework, its system of motivations, is stretched very thin between two extremes: of clarity and opacity, near-obviousness and absolute impenetrability.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
  • Played with gruff impenetrability and a thinly veiled sadistic streak by David Shih, this big dog’s name is Mitsuo, but no one uses names in the heya — only ranks.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For too long, your culture has been shrouded in obscurity, and even shame.
    Kira Garcia, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
  • The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel Photo: Courtesy of Tribeca Festival How did a 1970s British soccer star disappear without a trace at the peak of his career and, years later, end up managing a down-at-the-heels West Hollywood motel in obscurity?
    Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • There is darkness out there, and it’s got to go somewhere.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 22 June 2025
  • After this stop, the ship will cross over into the Arctic Circle, where the many hours of winter darkness are most conducive to spotting the northern lights.
    Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2025
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“Mysteriousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mysteriousness. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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