Word Meanings - MYSTERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The consecrated elements in the eucharist. 4. Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma. (more info) 1. A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something

Additional info about word: MYSTERY

The consecrated elements in the eucharist. 4. Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MYSTERY)

• Paradox
• Contradiction
• enigma
• mystery
• absurdity
• ambiguity

Related words: (words related to MYSTERY)

• PARADOXURE
  Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat . See Musang.
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• CONTRADICTION
  1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. 2. Direct opposition
• PARADOXIDES
  A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.
• PARADOXY
  1. A paradoxical statement; a paradox. 2. The quality or state of being paradoxical. Coleridge
• ENIGMATICALLY
  Darkly; obscurely.
• PARADOXICAL
  1. Of the nature of a paradox. 2. Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions. Southey. -- Par`a*dox"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*dox"ic*al*ness, n.
• ABSURDITY
  1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. "The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number." Locke. 2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were
• PARADOXAL
  Paradoxical.
• PARADOXOLOGY
  The use of paradoxes. Sir T. Browne.
• ENIGMATIST
  One who makes, or talks in, enigmas. Addison.
• PARADOX
  A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact. A gloss there is to color that paradox,
• ENIGMA
  1. A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed. A custom was among the ancients of proposing an enigma at festivals. Pope. 2. An action, mode of action, or thing, which
• PARADOXER; PARADOXIST
  One who proposes a paradox.
• AMBIGUITY
  The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the
• ENIGMATIZE
  To make, or talk in, enigmas; to deal in riddles.
• ENIGMATOGRAPHY; ENIGMATOLOGY
  The art of making or of solving enigmas.
• MYSTERY
  The consecrated elements in the eucharist. 4. Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma. (more info) 1. A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something
• CONTRADICTIONAL
  Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing. Milton.
• SELF-CONTRADICTION
  The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.
• UNAMBIGUITY
  Absence of ambiguity; clearness; perspicuity.