What's The Definition Of Mystery?
[n] something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"
[n] a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
Synonyms | Synonyms for Mystery: closed book |
enigma |
mystery story |
secret |
whodunit
Related Terms | Find terms related to Mystery: adventure story |
allegory |
ambiguity |
ambiguousness |
anagoge |
anagogics |
anthroposophy |
antimasque |
apologue |
arcanum |
art |
audience success |
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ballet |
bedtime story |
beguilingness |
bewilderment |
bomb |
bother |
brain twister |
brain-teaser |
broadcast drama |
burlesque show |
business |
cabala |
cabalism |
career |
career building |
careerism |
ceremonial |
ceremony |
charade |
Chinese puzzle |
classified information |
cliff hanger |
closet drama |
comedy drama |
confidence |
confidential communication |
confoundment |
confusion |
conundrum |
craft |
critical success |
crossword puzzle |
crux |
dark horse |
daytime serial |
detective novel |
detective story |
dialogue |
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discomposure |
disconcert |
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disturbance |
documentary drama |
drama |
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esoterica |
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esotery |
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fabliau |
faerie |
failure |
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gest |
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Grand Guignol |
guarded secret |
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hermetics |
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hit show |
hocus-pocus |
holy rite |
horse opera |
improvisational drama |
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inexplicability |
inextricability |
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insolvability |
institution |
jam |
jigsaw puzzle |
knot |
knotty point |
legend |
legitimate drama |
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line |
line of business |
line of work |
liturgy |
love story |
Marchen |
marvelousness |
masque |
matter of ignorance |
melodrama |
metier |
mind-boggler |
minstrel show |
miracle |
miracle play |
miraculousness |
mission |
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morality |
morality play |
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music drama |
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mysticism |
mystification |
myth |
mythology |
mythos |
n |
nebulousness |
nonplus |
number |
numinousness |
nursery tale |
nut to crack |
obscurity |
observance |
occultism |
occupation |
office |
opera |
order of worship |
ordinance |
otherworldliness |
pageant |
panel show |
pantomime |
parable |
Passion play |
pastoral |
pastoral drama |
perplexed question |
perplexity |
personal matter |
perturbation |
phenomenalness |
pickle |
piece |
play |
playlet |
plight |
poser |
pother |
practice |
predicament |
prescribed form |
preternaturalism |
private matter |
privileged communication |
privity |
problem |
problem play |
prodigiousness |
profession |
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psychodrama |
pursuit |
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quandary |
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racket |
radio drama |
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rite |
ritual |
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romance |
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service |
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show |
sitcom |
situation comedy |
sixty-four dollar question |
sketch |
skit |
soap |
soap opera |
sociodrama |
solemnity |
space fiction |
space opera |
specialization |
specialty |
spectacle |
stage play |
stage show |
stew |
sticker |
straight drama |
stumper |
stupendousness |
success |
superhumanity |
supernaturalism |
supernaturality |
supernaturalness |
supernature |
supernormalness |
superphysicalness |
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supranaturalism |
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suspense drama |
suspense story |
symbolics |
symbolism |
tableau |
tableau vivant |
talk show |
teleplay |
television drama |
television play |
terra incognita |
the incalculable |
the occult |
the strange |
the supernatural |
the supersensible |
the unfamiliar |
the unknowable |
the unknown |
theater of cruelty |
thriller |
Tom show |
total theater |
tough proposition |
trade |
transcendentalism |
unaccountableness |
unassuredness |
undefinability |
unearthliness |
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unknown quantity |
unworldliness |
upset |
vagueness |
variety show |
vaudeville |
vaudeville show |
vehicle |
vexed question |
vocation |
walk |
walk of life |
Western |
Western story |
Westerner |
whodunit |
why |
witchery |
wonderfulness |
wondrousness |
word-of-mouth success |
work |
work of fiction |
x |
yoga |
yogeeism |
yogism |
z
See Also | detective story |
murder mystery |
perplexity |
story
Mystery In Webster's Dictionary
\Mys"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Mysteries}. [L. mysterium, Gr. ?,
fr. ? one initiated in mysteries; cf. ? to initiate into the
mysteries, fr. ? to shut the eyes. Cf. {Mute}, a.]
1. A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something
kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting
curiosity or wonder; something which has not been or can
not be explained; hence, specifically, that which is
beyond human comprehension.
We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery. --1 Cor.
ii. 7.
If God should please to reveal unto us this great
mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in
our holy religion, we should not be able to
understand them, unless he would bestow on us some
new faculties of the mind. --Swift.
2. A kind of secret religious celebration, to which none were
admitted except those who had been initiated by certain
preparatory ceremonies; -- usually plural; as, the
Eleusinian mysteries.
3. pl. The consecrated elements in the eucharist.
4. Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma.
\Mys"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Mysteries}. [OE. mistere, OF.
mestier, F. m['e]tier, L. ministerium. See {Ministry}.]
1. A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one
is usually occupied.
Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery. --Shak.
And that which is the noblest mystery Brings to
reproach and common infamy. --Spenser.
2. A dramatic representation of a Scriptural subject, often
some event in the life of Christ; a dramatic composition
of this character; as, the Chester Mysteries, consisting
of dramas acted by various craft associations in that city
in the early part of the 14th century.
``Mystery plays,'' so called because acted by
craftsmen. --Skeat.
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