Itis vs Unknown - What's the difference?
itis | unknown |
(informal) A medical condition accompanied by inflammation.
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(informal, Caribbean) The feeling of sleepiness after eating a heavy meal, usually the itis.
Not known; unidentified; not well known.
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(algebra) A variable (usually x'', ''y'' or ''z ) whose value is to be found.
Any fact or place about which nothing is known (as in the phrase "into the unknown").
A person of no identity; a nonentity
* 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
As nouns the difference between itis and unknown
is that itis is (informal) a medical condition accompanied by inflammation while unknown is (algebra) a variable (usually x'', ''y'' or ''z ) whose value is to be found.As an adjective unknown is
not known; unidentified; not well known.itis
English
(wikipedia itis)Noun
(es)Scorecard”, Robert W. Creamer ed., in Sports Illustrated
- “. . . Arthritis, tendinitis and all those other itises will eventually catch up with you.”
References
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English
Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* anonymous * unfamiliar * uncharted * undiscovered * unexplored * unidentified * unnamed * unrecognized * unrevealed * unascertained * obscure * unsungNoun
(en noun)- How does it feel
- To be on your own
- With no direction home
- Like a complete unknown
- Like a rolling stone?