'Mystery' definitions:
Definition of 'mystery'
(from WordNet)
noun
Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets" [syn: mystery, enigma, secret, closed book]
noun
A story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie [syn: mystery, mystery story, whodunit]
Definition of 'Mystery'
From: GCIDE
- Mystery \Mys"ter*y\ (m[i^]s"t[~e]r*[y^]), n.; pl. Mysteries (m[i^]s"t[~e]r*[i^]z). [L. mysterium, Gr. mysth`rion, fr. my`sths one initiated in mysteries; cf. myei^n to initiate into the mysteries, fr. my`ein 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. [1913 Webster]
- We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery. --1 Cor. ii. 7. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. pl. The consecrated elements in the eucharist. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mystery'
From: GCIDE
- Mystery \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. [1913 Webster]
- Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- And that which is the noblest mystery Brings to reproach and common infamy. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- "Mystery plays," so called because acted by craftsmen. --Skeat. [1913 Webster] Mystic
Definition of 'mystery'
From: Easton
- Mystery the calling of the Gentiles into the Christian Church, so designated (Eph. 1:9, 10; 3:8-11; Col. 1:25-27); a truth undiscoverable except by revelation, long hid, now made manifest. The resurrection of the dead (1 Cor. 15:51), and other doctrines which need to be explained but which cannot be fully understood by finite intelligence (Matt. 13:11; Rom. 11:25; 1 Cor. 13:2); the union between Christ and his people symbolized by the marriage union (Eph. 5:31, 32; comp. 6:19); the seven stars and the seven candlesticks (Rev. 1:20); and the woman clothed in scarlet (17:7), are also in this sense mysteries. The anti-Christian power working in his day is called by the apostle (2 Thess. 2:7) the "mystery of iniquity."
Synonyms of 'mystery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adventure story,
- allegory,
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- anagoge,
- anagogics,
- anthroposophy,
- antimasque,
- apologue,
- arcanum,
- art,
- audience success,
- awesomeness,
- baffle,
- bafflement,
- baffling problem,
- 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,
- dilemma,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- disturbance,
- documentary drama,
- drama,
- dramalogue,
- dramatic play,
- dramatic series,
- duodrama,
- duologue,
- duty,
- eeriness,
- elfdom,
- embarrassment,
- enchantingness,
- enigma,
- enigmatic question,
- enigmaticalness,
- enticingness,
- epic theater,
- esoterica,
- esotericism,
- esoterics,
- esoterism,
- esotery,
- experimental theater,
- extraordinariness,
- extravaganza,
- fable,
- fabliau,
- faerie,
- failure,
- fairy tale,
- fantasy,
- fascination,
- fiction,
- fix,
- floorer,
- flop,
- folk story,
- folktale,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- frontier,
- frontiers of knowledge,
- function,
- game,
- gasser,
- gest,
- ghost story,
- giveaway,
- glamorousness,
- Grand Guignol,
- guarded secret,
- handicraft,
- happening,
- hermetics,
- hit,
- hit show,
- hocus-pocus,
- holy rite,
- horse opera,
- improvisational drama,
- indefinability,
- indefiniteness,
- inexplicability,
- inextricability,
- inscrutability,
- insolvability,
- institution,
- jam,
- jigsaw puzzle,
- knot,
- knotty point,
- legend,
- legitimate drama,
- lifework,
- 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,
- mode of worship,
- monodrama,
- monologue,
- morality,
- morality play,
- mumbo jumbo,
- music drama,
- musical revue,
- mysteriousness,
- mystery of mysteries,
- mystery play,
- mystery story,
- 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,
- profound secret,
- psychodrama,
- pursuit,
- puzzle,
- puzzlement,
- puzzler,
- quandary,
- question,
- question mark,
- quiz show,
- racket,
- radio drama,
- remarkableness,
- restricted information,
- review,
- revue,
- riddle,
- rite,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- rituality,
- romance,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- science fiction,
- scrape,
- sealed book,
- secrecy,
- secret,
- seductiveness,
- sensational play,
- serial,
- service,
- shocker,
- 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,
- supersensibleness,
- supranaturalism,
- supranature,
- 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,
- unexplainableness,
- unexplored ground,
- unexplored territory,
- 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