0 something strange or not known that has not yet been explained or understood: --
It's a complete mystery (to me) that/why (= I do not understand why) she married him at all!
The details of the scandal remain cloaked/shrouded/wrapped in mystery.
The mystery was solved when the police discovered the murder weapon.
How the massive stones were brought here from hundreds of miles away is/remains a mystery.
1 a book, film, or play, especially about a crime or a murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have happened: --
2 something strange or unknown which has not yet been explained or understood: --
The near-sacred statistics are explained; formulas are given for mysteries like the earned run average.
The material means of music are rationally quantifiable but not the mysteries of their application.
All these and other mysteries are explored in this fascinating book, with the aid of some good illustrations.
Their mechanics, in a sense, outweigh their mysteries - which may be a way of saying that the records are disturbing but not inexplicable.
In the hands of those less skilled than the aforementioned religionists, mysteries themselves, can be used to justify virtually any behaviour.
We enjoy mysteries, so long as they do not threaten our person.
By reason of this terror the savage trembled before the magician who seemed to have penetrated the mysteries of nature about him.
Just-deserts responsibility requires mysteries or myopia; either way, it is fundamentally incompatible with medical science.
