Definition of "mystique"
mystique
noun
usually uncountable, plural mystiques
An aura of heightened interest, meaning or mystery surrounding a person or thing.
Quotations
The mystique spelled out a choice—love, home, children, or other goals and purposes in life. […] The baby boom of the immediate postwar years took place in every country. But it was not permeated, in most other countries, with the mystique of feminine fulfillment.
1963, Betty Friedan, “The Mistaken Choice”, in The Feminine Mystique
Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 134