mysteriousness

noun

1
as in ambiguity
the quality or state of being impossible to know, understand, or explain the mysteriousness of the nocturnal noises evaporated with the arrival of daybreak

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2
as in ambiguousness
the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning the unexpected mysteriousness of the phone message had them a little concerned

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Recent Examples of mysteriousness That intrigue and mysteriousness still rest in the canyon walls today. — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mysteriousness
  1. ambiguity
  2. mystery
  3. impenetrability
  4. inscrutability
  5. obscurity
  6. darkness
Noun
  • Bunch said that one of his goals in the head role was to encourage Americans to embrace ambiguity and recognize that America is a complicated, multifaceted nation.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026
  • At some point in the 2010s, ethnic ambiguity became not just a useful way to broaden the casting pool but something fashionable.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of ambiguity
Noun
  • Narrowing the superconductivity mystery The result also helps rule out a simple conventional explanation.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Sinéty developed a knack for finding within quotidian domestic and village scenes—a woman brushing her hair, a picnic in the sun—a dreamlike sense of mystery.
    — Felix Bazalgette, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of mystery
Noun
  • What The Dark Wizard does differently is grapple with Potter’s impenetrability without being able to resolve it, and consider how that indecision might change our perceptions of his life and his May 2015 death while BASE jumping in Yosemite.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 May 2026
  • Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Definition of impenetrability
Noun
  • In the same way that audiences are trying to unpack the central scheme — or interlocking set of schemes — at the center of Paula’s newfound predicament, so was the Emmy-winning Maslany drawn to the inscrutability of her character.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 24 May 2026
  • What these critics don’t reckon with enough is that inscrutability is also a feature of the world.
    — Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of inscrutability
Noun
  • SailGP is sailing’s best opportunity to emerge from obscurity.
    — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The historic watchmaker, which clocked nearly two centuries in the industry before fading into obscurity in the early 1990s, has officially relaunched with the help of Breitling.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of obscurity
Noun
  • For the role, Miike didn’t reach for an actor already associated with darkness.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Elk may be moving to and from the shelter of timber at the edge of darkness.
    — Jim Zumbo, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026
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“Mysteriousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mysteriousness. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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