the unknown
Beyond current knowledge
The unknown is whatever lies beyond current knowledge or experience.
It often carries connotations of mystery, danger, or possibility: Fear of the unknown kept her from traveling abroad.
Scientists probe the unknown; explorers venture into it.
The unknown can also mean an unidentified person or thing: The caller was an unknown.
- alien worldsPlanets outside our system
- fogLow-lying cloud cover
- black holesRegions of inescapable gravity
- terra incognitaUnexplored or unknown region
- nightDark hours daily
dark matter · solipsism · consciousness · extraterrestrial life · here be dragons · liminal · leap of faith · shadow · lost civilizations · free will · ancient scripts · epistemology · abyss · the sublime · void · parallel universes · the great beyond · uncharted waters
- fearsspiders, snakes, falling, heights, death
- Gothic horrorghost story, haunted houses, Dracula, vampires, Frankenstein
- unexplored placesdeep sea, unmapped, undiscovered, deep ocean, uncharted
- The Adjectivesthe deaf, the poor, the rich, the elderly
- beneath the surfaceunderground, underwater, submerged, caves, aquifers
- existentialismexistence, authenticity, existential angst, existential crisis, angst
know, knowledge, known, unknown, acknowledge, knowingly, knowledgeable, acknowledgment, know-how