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mysteriosity

mysteriosity noun: the quality of being mysterious.

Noun

mysteriosity (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being mysterious.
    • The drama which Messrs. Wilkie Collins and Fechter are working upon together for the Adelphi is an adaptation of the former’s “Moonstone,” a wildly improbable and dreadfully tedious story, in which one or two effective bits of characterization are overladen with elaboration, repetition, and what...1869 March 13, “Foreign Notes”, in Every Saturday: […], volume VII, number 167, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 352, column 1
    • How peculiarly unfortunate that I should have expended so much effort learning navigation and then have B. J. vanish with such mysteriosity.1903 May 10, Rupert Hughes, “Good Reading for Boys and Girls: The Cruise of the Lakerimmers”, in Clark Howell, editor, The Atlanta Constitution, volume XXXV, Atlanta, Ga.: Constitution Publishing...
    Synonyms:
    mysteriousness

Synonyms of mysteriosity

Origin of mysteriosity

From mysteri(ous) + -osity.

Questions about mysteriosity

What does mysteriosity mean?
Mysteriosity means the quality of being mysterious.
What part of speech is mysteriosity?
Mysteriosity is a noun.

Words near mysteriosity in the dictionary

  1. mysteriarchs
  2. mysterical
  3. mysterically
  4. mysteried
  5. mysteries
  6. mysteriosity
  7. mysterioso
  8. mysteriosophic
  9. mysteriosophy
  10. mysterious
  11. mysteriously

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