Mystery
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| + | [[Image:The Heart Has Its Reasons by Odilon Redon.jpg |thumb|right|200px|''[[The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing]]'' (c.[[1887]]) by [[Odilon Redon]], a phrase from the ''[[Pensées]]'' ([[1669]]) by [[Blaise Pascal]]]] | ||
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| - | # Something [[secret]] or unexplainable; [[unknown]]. | ||
| - | #:''The truth behind the events remains a '''mystery'''.'' | ||
| - | # Someone or thing with an [[obscure]] or puzzling nature. | ||
| - | #:''That man is a '''mystery'''.'' | ||
| + | A '''mystery''' is something [[secret]] or [[unexplainable]]; [[unknown]]; someone or thing with an [[obscure]] or [[puzzling]] nature. | ||
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| + | ==Etymology== | ||
| + | From Middle English ''mysterie'', from Latin ''mysterium'', from Ancient Greek ''μυστήριον'' (musterion, “a mystery, a secret, a secret rite”), from ''μύστης'' (mustēs, “initiated one”), from ''μυέω'' (mueō, “I initiate”), from ''μύω'' (muō, “I shut”). | ||
| == See also == | == See also == | ||
| - | [[Mystery fiction]] | + | *[[Mystery (disambiguation)]] |
| + | *[[Mystery fiction]] | ||
| + | *[[Mystery film]] | ||
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A mystery is something secret or unexplainable; unknown; someone or thing with an obscure or puzzling nature.
Etymology
From Middle English mysterie, from Latin mysterium, from Ancient Greek μυστήριον (musterion, “a mystery, a secret, a secret rite”), from μύστης (mustēs, “initiated one”), from μυέω (mueō, “I initiate”), from μύω (muō, “I shut”).
See also
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