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mystery

something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"

a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie

Synonyms:

• Chinese puzzle,
• Grand Guignol,
• Marchen,
• Passion play,
• Tom show,
• Western,
• Western story,
• Westerner,
• 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,
• 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,
• 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,
• 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,
• 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,
• 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,
• whodunit,
• why,
• witchery,
• wonderfulness,
• wondrousness,
• word-of-mouth success,
• work,
• work of fiction,
• x,
• yoga,
• yogeeism,
• yogism,
• z