mystery

n

1. enigma, puzzle, riddle, conundrum, question, question mark; problem, dilemma, quandary, plight, predicament, skeleton in the closet, Inf. pickle, Inf. fix, Inf. jam, Inf. stew; fog, haze, mist, murk, dark; maze, labyrinth, tangle, knot; secret, arcanum, hidden meaning, closed book; unknown, unknowable, unexplored ground, Latin, terra incognita; deep or profound secret, mystery of mysteries.

2. seer, prophet, oracle, sphynx; puzzler, poser, Inf. hard nut to crack, Inf. brain-teaser, Inf. mind-boggier, Inf. stumper, Inf. floorer; mystery story, detective story, Inf. whodunit.

3. obscurity, ambiguity, ambiguousness, vagueness, nebulousness, equivocalness; enigmaticalness, mysteriousness, inscrutability, inscrutableness; inexplicability, unexplainableness, unaccountableness, imperceptibility; mysticism, occultness, cabal, cabalism, symbolism; occultism, esotericism, esoterics, esotery; super-naturalism, preternaturalism, otherworldliness; secrecy, secretiveness, concealment, obscurantism, obscuration, mumbo jumbo, hocus-pocus; abstruseness, reconditeness, profundity, profoundness.

4.(all of Roman Catholic doctrine) sacramental rite, transubstantiation, Eucharistic rite, mass, sacrifice; Eucharist, Holy Communion, Communion, Holy Sacrament, Sacrament, body and blood of Christ, Host, wafer.

5. miracle, sign, revelation, divine revelation, divine truth; wonder, marvel, prodigy, Scot. ferly.

6. mystery play, miracle play, morality play, morality, passion play.