Intrigue vs. Mystery — What's the Difference?

A secret or underhand scheme; a plot.

One that is not fully understood or that baffles or eludes the understanding; an enigma

The practice of or involvement in such schemes

One whose identity is unknown and who arouses curiosity

A clandestine love affair.

A mysterious character or quality

To arouse the interest or curiosity of

Something that is a secret

To effect or cause to be accepted or rejected by secret scheming or plotting

A work of fiction, such as a novel or a movie, that has a story centered around solving a puzzling crime or mysterious event.

To engage in secret or underhand schemes; plot.

A nonfictional account of a puzzling crime or mysterious event presented in the manner of a mystery.

A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.

A religious cult practicing secret rites to which only initiates are admitted.

The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.

A secret rite of such a cult.

Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.

A religious truth that is incomprehensible to reason and knowable only through divine revelation.

(intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.

An incident from the life of Jesus, especially the Incarnation, Passion, Crucifixion, or Resurrection, of particular importance for redemption.

(transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.

One of the 15 incidents from the lives of Jesus or the Blessed Virgin Mary, such as the Annunciation or the Ascension, serving in Roman Catholicism as the subject of meditation during recitation of the rosary.

(intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.

Also Mystery One of the sacraments, especially the Eucharist.

(transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.

Mysteries The consecrated elements of the Eucharist.

To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.

Often mysteries The skills, lore, or practices that are peculiar to a particular activity or group and are regarded as the special province of initiates

To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.

A mystery play.

To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.

A trade or occupation.

Intricacy; complication.

A guild, as of merchants or artisans.

A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.

Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.

The plot of a play or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.

Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.

A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.

(obsolete) A secret or mystical meaning.

A crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid).

A clandestine love affair

A sacrament.

Cause to be interested or curious

A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation.

Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

(Catholicism) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.

A craft, art or trade; specifically a guild of craftsmen.

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.

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.

The consecrated elements in the eucharist.

Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma.

A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied.

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.

Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained;

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