mysteriousness

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mysteriousness
Noun
  • According to the outlet’s research findings, uncertainty and ambiguity are hallmarks of entrepreneurship.
    Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Curiosity and possibly even lust play into their first encounter; part of the welcome complexity between this pale-skinned woman of substance and this tall, equally alabaster, formerly dead drink of water is the ambiguity in their initial interactions.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Some scholars countered that Venusian volcanoes could have produced phosphine; others said that the measurements were dubious, and the mystery gas wasn’t phosphine.
    David W. Brown, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The music feels like a murder mystery caper, propelled by urgency yet never losing its lightness.
    Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This may be Riley’s attempt to portray the insularity and impenetrability of Ruth’s community, a faith so particular that even the reader is denied access to it.
    Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • For certain travelers, though, especially those who gravitate toward conflict zones and geopolitical oddities, Turkmenistan’s impenetrability has given it an alluring mystique.
    Joe Yogerst, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • Théodore Pellerin is a force of abstract inscrutability as Matthew, a character whose true motivations are always kept just out of frame.
    Michael Cuby, Them., 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • With a single photo, though, Swift vaulted it from obscurity into obsession.
    Malaika Crawford, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2025
  • By the finale, Gaal is no longer the uncertain mathematician plucked from obscurity.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The darkness not of mystery but of fear.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • His beam wavered on a patch of blankness, or the corner of an amp, and then began to roam the stage in desperation, scanning here and scanning there—until, from the darkness, the voice of Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden’s singer, was heard.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Mysteriousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mysteriousness. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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