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
  • Katie Ball, a law professor at the University of Idaho, said ambiguity in legal language is common.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 10 Nov. 2026
  • But Misley’s lawyers disagreed, saying there was ambiguity in Young’s statements.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2026
Definition of ambiguity
Noun
  • Embrace your inner Hercule Poirot with the most intriguing mysteries Christie has written.
    — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Sam doesn’t enter the picture until the very end of the first episode, which establishes both the sorry state of Charlie’s personal life and the mystery that will bring her and Sam back into each other’s lives after a decade-long estrangement.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 12 Nov. 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
  • The late Hayden Panettiere plays Knox with a sly inscrutability, while Marcia Gay Harden stars as Knox’s cautiously loyal mother.
    — Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of inscrutability
Noun
  • Very faint variable stars changing their brightness and then fading back into obscurity, for example, might also explain either or both points.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Before 1930, the trail thrived with free campgrounds, travel bureaus, and publications, but the advent of the route numbering system, created by the state of Wisconsin in 1918, caused named roads to fade into obscurity.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of obscurity
Noun
  • This guy who’s got poetry in his soul, just surrounded by darkness and just trying to let that light shine.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Warhammer Survivors changes that, finally providing curious gamers with an easy entry point into the grim darkness of the 41st millennium.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of darkness

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“Mysteriousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mysteriousness. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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