HTTP/2 200
date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 10:05:22 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
content-security-policy-report-only: default-src 'self';img-src 'self' data: https://flickr.com https://*.flickr.com https://s.gravatar.com https://s.gravatar.com/avatar https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar https://i1.wp.com/cdn.auth0.com/avatars https://cdn.auth0.com/avatars https://g.stripe.com/ https://ssl.google-analytics.com https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/ https://farm66.static.flickr.com https://www.google-analytics.com https://tpc.googlesyndication.com https://pbs.twimg.com https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net https://*.amazon-adsystem.com https://fundingchoicesmessages.google.com https://*.3lift.com https://ams-pageview-public.s3.amazonaws.com https://www.google.com https://syndication.twitter.com https://image8.pubmatic.com https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net https://*.googleusercontent.com;base-uri 'self';font-src 'self' https: data:;frame-ancestors 'self';frame-src https://js.stripe.com https://platform.twitter.com/ https://syndication.twitter.com/ https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/ https://*.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/ https://www.google.com/ https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/;connect-src 'self' https: https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ppub_config https://bam.nr-data.net/events/1/cb925c8058;object-src none;script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' report-sample https://js.stripe.com/v3/ https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js https://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.4.1.min.js https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.0/dist/umd/popper.min.js https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/validate.js/0.13.1/validate.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.8.3/underscore-min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/list.js/1.5.0/list.min.js https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js https://www.googletagmanager.com/ https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js https://js-agent.newrelic.com/nr-spa-1184.min.js https://fundingchoicesmessages.google.com https://bam.nr-data.net https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net https://www.googletagservices.com https://adservice.google.com https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tether/1.4.0/js/tether.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.12.9/umd/popper.min.js https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/clipboard@2.0.8/dist/clipboard.min.js https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/howler/2.1.1/howler.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/validator/10.9.0/validator.min.js https://*.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/ https://*.googlesyndication.com/ https://platform.twitter.com/js/ https://cdn.ampproject.org https://www.google-analytics.com https://adservice.google.be https://adservice.google.ca https://adservice.google.co.id https://adservice.google.co.mz https://adservice.google.co.th https://adservice.google.co.uk https://adservice.google.co.za https://adservice.google.com.au https://adservice.google.com.ec https://adservice.google.com.hk https://adservice.google.com.ng https://adservice.google.com.np https://adservice.google.com.ph https://adservice.google.com.sa https://adservice.google.de https://adservice.google.es https://adservice.google.fi https://adservice.google.fr https://adservice.google.ie https://adservice.google.it https://adservice.google.lk https://adservice.google.lt https://adservice.google.nl https://adservice.google.no https://adservice.google.rs https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net;script-src-attr none;style-src 'self' https: 'unsafe-inline' report-sample;report-uri https://5f9d927665d1a16209ba908c.endpoint.csper.io
x-dns-prefetch-control: off
expect-ct: max-age=0
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains
x-download-options: noopen
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-permitted-cross-domain-policies: none
referrer-policy: origin-when-cross-origin
x-xss-protection: 0
etag: W/"12466-yBpEjn3hrVVjeV4lmiPWfqS0gow"
set-cookie: cookienik=eyJjc3JmU2VjcmV0IjoiSk5DeUpBbDVMWUZSazlZQ2g4TUVUYUpxIn0=; path=/; expires=Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:05:22 GMT; domain=wordnik.com; secure; httponly
set-cookie: cookienik.sig=sbhe9RH9bJsoq34KwrrxonTKa4M; path=/; expires=Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:05:22 GMT; domain=wordnik.com; secure; httponly
vary: Accept-Encoding
content-encoding: gzip
mysteriousness - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The quality of being mysterious; obscurity; the quality of being hidden from the understanding and calculated to excite curiosity or wonder.
noun That which is mysterious or obscure.
noun The behavior or manner of one who wishes or affects to imply a mystery: as, he told us with much mysteriousness to wait and see.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The state or quality of being mysterious.
noun rare Something mysterious; a mystery.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun The quality of being mysterious .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
mysterious + -ness
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word mysteriousness .
Examples
The mysteriousness is the point, what makes it koan-like.
Not over yet ... Frank Wilson 2008
I may be able to very soon, and clear up all this mysteriousness , that is worrying me so.
Frank Roscoe's Secret Or, the Darewell Chums in the Woods Allen Chapman
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.
Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1818
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.
Northanger Abbey 1818
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.
Northanger Abbey 1798
And our own growth into love has got to be a growth into that kind of mysteriousness , that kind of causeless upsurge of compassion towards the stranger.
An address given by the Archbishop 2008
And our own growth into love has got to be a growth into that kind of mysteriousness , that kind of causeless upsurge of compassion towards the stranger.
An address given by the Archbishop 2008
And this isn't a 'mysteriousness ' objection; it's just good sense.
More on Natural Evil 2005
And this isn't a 'mysteriousness ' objection; it's just good sense.
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
It gives you an odd mysteriousness which is very attractive. '
The Magician 1919
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.