All 3 Uses of
enigma
in
After Dark, by Murakami
- What it wants to do is exclude the encroaching world of reality and go on sleeping without end in a soft, enigmatic darkness.†
Chpt 10enigmatic = mysterious and seeming unexplainable
- Could she have succeeded in escaping from that enigmatic room?
Chpt 16 *
- The enigmatic ring of those words will remain inside Takahashi as a kind of metaphor.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(enigma) something mysterious that seems unexplainable
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
The word may also be seen in the proper noun, Enigma Machine. It refers to an encryption device used by Nazi Germany during the second world war. Britain eventually learned to unencrypt messages sent with the machine, but kept that ability a secret.