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mysteriousness

noun

Etymology

From mysterious + -ness.

  1. derived from mystérieux
  2. inherited from *misterius✻
  3. suffixed as mysteriousness — “mysterious + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being mysterious.

    • 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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA