terra incognita
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Etymology[edit]
Latin: terra, land; incognita, unknown.
Noun[edit]
- Land that has never been explored or mapped; uncharted territory.
- By extension, ideas or concepts that have not yet been tried or explored.
- 2009, Gary Clark, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 9:
- The concept of the unconscious or an inner terra incognita, an unknown country of the psyche that precedes and predicates the Cartesian subject, the focal point of rational consciousness, was a revolutionary idea.
- 2009, Gary Clark, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 9:
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Translations[edit]
unknown land
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unexplored ideas
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