Noun
A profound riddle or conundrum.
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Like the poem of Epysychidion, by Shelley, the entrails of our epilogomena, will be caviare to the many-headed but to the select few will be as water to the parched earth, as manna to the hungry Israelite; they will unravel our sphinxities, and untwist our enigmatics, so that our dictum shall be as the opening of the seventh seal, or the finality of cherubian metastasis.
At first we stand agedly solemn before the sphinxity of life, and "on ne devient pas jeune qu'avec le temps."
[…] the "sphinxity" of humans themselves, the riddle that we carry within us and that we have assigned ourselves to solve.
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We always end up understanding it and the intimate satisfaction we gain from guessing at its sphinxities amply repays the laboriousness of our efforts.