terra incognita

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin terra incognita (“unknown land”). === Noun === terra incognita Land that has never been explored, mapped, or surveyed. Synonym: uncharted territory Antonyms: home ground, homeland (by extension) Ideas or concepts that have not yet been tried or explored. Synonyms: uncharted territory, uncharted waters Coordinate term: terra firma (often antonymous to this sense) 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. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ====