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Incognita

Incognita \In*cog"ni*ta\, n. [See Incognito.]

  1. A woman who is unknown or in disguise.

  2. The state of being in disguise; -- said of a woman.

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incognita

n. 1 A woman who is unknown or in disguise. 2 (context of a woman English) The state of being in disguise.

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Usage examples of "incognita".

Although we are far from a full understanding of the terra incognita of M-theory, there are no blank regions on the map.

Other small glaciers show in valleys near Biasca which I know nothing about, and which I imagine to be almost a terra incognita, except to the inhabitants of such villages as Malvaglia in the Val Blenio.

But even so, it is a long and dangerous interior journey to terra incognita, perhaps even more dangerous than a physical journey would be.

Queen was travelling incognita, and that fact alone robbed her progress of a sense of excitement.

Solomon islands, which still remain incognita, though once high-ruffed Mendanna trod them and old Figuera chronicled them.

South parts of ye world called Terra Australis, incognita, extending Eastwards and Westwards from ye Straights of Le Maire, together with all ye adjacente Islands, etc.

Behaviorism, of course, wants nothing to do with any of this "black box" of interior meaning, and consigns the lot of it, at best, to "intervening variables" lying in that terra incognita between observable stimuli and observable response, internal variables that are defined merely as "tendencies to behavior," because behaviorism, being a Right-Hand path, does not trust anything it cannot see and monologically tinker with or reinforce.

I refer to the ocean called the Pacific, as the Portuguese have named it, in which surely lies the Austral Terra Incognita, of which only a few islands are known, a few hazy coasts, but still enough for us to assume that it conceals fabulous riches.

Would you, as an author of distinction and refinement, be interested in venturing into this terra incognita, et cetera, et cetera?

The Islamic Revolution and its aftermath had made Iran, once again, almost a terra incognita for Westerners.

On the following evening, she herself suggested that the team should take another shot at that utterly fantastic terra incognita of the multiple mind, jolting though it had been.

It was the terra incognita, the land unknown, the land without people, and it lay beyond the farthest boundary of the land claimed by Sartor, Hathis, Peramis and Drogue.