incognita
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- noun
- /ˌɪnˈkɒɡnɪtə/
- Literature
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incógnita
- Beyond the contrived and carnival atmosphere of that fantasy zone is the border city, terra incognita to most North Americans.
- Terra Incognita
And Needless to say, this is Terra incognita for the show, But I'm very glad to be exploring it.
- And Needless to say, this is Terra incognita for the show, But I'm very glad to be exploring it.
Examples
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We remain in terra incognita.
Academic text (2001) -
This is terra incognita.
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The rest is terra incognita for us and always will be.
Fiction book (1990) -
Some explorers wind up in terra much more incognita than they anticipated!
Fiction book (2001) -
California recently introduced a required sixth grade course in ancient civilizations, but ancient history is otherwise terra incognita in American education.
Academic text (1990) -
Prince Charming rode alone into the great green forest, beyond the familiar fields and hills, into the terra incognita that lay beyond.
Fiction book (1991) -
It is to mapping this newly emergent terra incognita that this issue of the Geographical Review is devoted.
Academic text (1997) -
I understood she had been in rooms like this before—terra incognita—and that she didn’t like them any more than we did.
Fiction book (1996) -
As long ago as the sixteenth century, geographers posited the existence of a "Terra Australia Incognita" (Unknown Southern Land), and explorers began to search it out.
Academic text (2008) -
For centuries, much of the Arctic remained incognita to explorers seeking new lands.
Synonyms
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A place or subject that people do not know yet
An area that no one has explored or seen before
Compounds
How Unknown
Surface Forms
Etymology
Incognita comes from Latin parts in- 'not' and cognita 'known', like in the word 'recognize'. It originally named something unknown or unexplored, so today an incognita can mean an unknown place, subject, or matter.