mystification
mystification noun: the act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
Noun
mystification (countable and uncountable, plural mystifications)
- The act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
- But soon one notices, first in ones and twos, and then in larger groups, men who are very much alive at this hour in the morning, the sorters for the Caledonian, and Edinburgh sections of the "Down Special"; mail is piled high on the platforms, and the postal men glance occasionally towards the...1948 May and June, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 157
- For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12
- A mystifying thing.
Synonyms of mystification
Forms of mystification
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Origin of mystification
From French mystification.
Words formed from mystification
Questions about mystification
- What does mystification mean?
- Mystification means the act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
- What part of speech is mystification?
- Mystification is a noun.
- What is the plural of mystification?
- The plural of mystification is mystifications.
Words near mystification in the dictionary
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