Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
I was, and still am, an enigma to myself.
A riddle, or a difficult problem.
Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l'envoy, begin.
Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
From the beginning, readers of The Enigma of Arrival are likely to feel surrounded by enigma and puzzle.
A German device used during World War II to encode strategic messages.
From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), being derived itself from the Ancient Greek verbal noun αἴνιγμα (aínigma, “dark saying, speaking in riddles”).
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