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Definition of mysteriousness noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

mysteriousness

noun
 
/mɪˈstɪəriəsnəs/
 
/mɪˈstɪriəsnəs/
[uncountable]
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  1. the fact of being difficult to understand or explain
    • the mysteriousness of life
  2. the quality of being strange and interesting because people do not know much about you
    • He was drawn to her poetic mysteriousness.
  3. the fact of not saying much about something, especially when other people want to know more
    • I was expecting someone amazing, from his mysteriousness about her, but she proved to be very ordinary.
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