terra incognita
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terra incognita
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Borrowed from Latin terra incognita (“unknown land”).
noun
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Land that has never been explored, mapped, or surveyed.
Behold me now in the full career of my voyage of discovery, exploring the James River in the steamboat, on a clear, hot fifteenth of June, and looking with a sagacious perspicacity on the commonest sights of this terra incognita.
Similar: uncharted territory · Opposite: home ground, homeland
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Ideas or concepts that have not yet been tried or explored.
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.
Similar: uncharted territory, uncharted water
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noun unknown land
| 日本語 | 未知の国 michi no kuni |
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| 中文 | 未知領域 /未知领域 wèizhī lǐngyù |
| Français | terra incognita, terre inconnue |
| Deutsch | Terra incognita, unbekanntes Land |
| Ελληνικά | άγνωστη γη ágnosti gi |
| Русский | те́рра инко́гнита tɛ́rra inkógnita, неизве́стная земля́ neizvéstnaja zemljá |
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title = {terra incognita},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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