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mystification

Noun

Meaning

The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.

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In a magic show, mystification is a good thing, but it is hardly to be commended in an economic program. Robert A. Dahl

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all. Julian Barnes

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past. John Berger

It was fairly evident that at least 90 per cent of all magic, probably more, was balderdash and sheer mystification. Robert A. Heinlein

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. E. B. White

In Plato, art is mystification because there is the heaven of Ideas; but in the earthly domain all glorification of the earth is true as soon as it is realized. Simone de Beauvoir

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