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inner space

British  

noun

  1. the environment beneath the surface of the sea

  2. the human mind regarded as being as unknown or as unfathomable as space

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Medea also fostered a parallel movement for the Navy to release once-secret information that illuminated inner space — the ocean’s sunless depths.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2021

Their inner space is explored as evocatively as their outward demeanour.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2020

During this sojourn into inner space, Queen Kane handily reveals her true reason for hunting a heretic roaming her lands.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2019

Instead of outer space, TV has spent the past decade obsessing over inner space, the Philip K. Dick stuff, over and over.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2018

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston