mysteriousness

Noun

mysteriousness (usually uncountable, plural mysteriousnesses)

1. (usually) The quality of being mysterious.
   • This may seem strange; and indeed it is so: and it is one of the great mysteriousnesses of the Gospel.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...
   • 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.1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December...

   Synonyms:

   mysteriosity