incognita
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- noun
- /ˌɪnˈkɒɡnɪtə/
- Literature
- Beyond the contrived and carnival atmosphere of that fantasy zone is the border city, terra incognita to most North Americans.
- Terra Incognita
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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
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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.