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English
Etymology
From mysterious + -ness.
Noun
mysteriousness (usually uncountable, plural mysteriousnesses)
- The quality of being mysterious.
- 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 may seem strange; and indeed it is so: and it is one of the great mysteriousnesses of the Gospel.
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.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 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC: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.
1920, Edith Wharton, chapter XXXIV, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D Appleton and Company, →OCLC, book II, page 354:His children had urged him to travel: Mary Chivers had felt sure it would do him good to go abroad and "see the galleries." The very mysteriousness of such a cure made her the more confident of its efficacy.
1970, Martin Buber, translated by Walter Kaufmann, I and Thou, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, First Part, p. 56:And all this is not changed by adding "mysterious" experiences to "manifest" ones, self-confident in the wisdom that recognizes a secret compartment in things, reserved for the initiated, and holds the key, O mysteriousness without mystery, O piling up of information! It, it, it!
Translations
the quality of being mysterious