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mysteriousness

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The quality of being mysterious.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Examples

  • 1651, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-Seven Sermons for the Summer Half-Year, Sermon II, Part II in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year, London: Tyler & Royston, 1668, p. 14, https://books.google.ca/books?id=heNBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false This may seem strange; and indeed it is so: and it is one of the great mysteriousnesses of the Gospel.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English mysterious Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English mysteriousness From mysterious + -ness.

Across languages

Translations

14 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 神祕 /神秘 (shénmì) — the quality of being mysterious
  • Chinese Mandarin: 詭祕 /诡秘 (guǐmì) — the quality of being mysterious
  • Chinese Mandarin: 詭秘 /诡秘 (guǐmì) — the quality of being mysterious
  • Czech: tajemnost — the quality of being mysterious
  • Czech: záhadnost — the quality of being mysterious
  • Czech: tajuplnost — the quality of being mysterious
  • Dutch: raadselachtigheid — the quality of being mysterious
  • French: mystériosité — the quality of being mysterious
  • Hungarian: titokzatosság — the quality of being mysterious
  • Hungarian: rejtélyesség — the quality of being mysterious
  • Kazakh: тылсымдылық (tylsymdylyq) — the quality of being mysterious
  • Malayalam: നിഗൂഢത (nigūḍhata) — the quality of being mysterious
  • Polish: tajemniczość — the quality of being mysterious
  • Polish: zagadkowość — the quality of being mysterious