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   Un·can·ny

   /ˌənˈkanē/

   

   adjective

   • 1. strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way: "an uncanny feeling that she was being watched" Similar eerieunnaturalpreternaturalsupernaturalunearthlyotherworldlyunrealghostlymysteriousstrangeabnormaloddcuriousqueerweirdbizarrefreakisheldritchinformal:creepyspookyfreakyrumbizarrostrikingremarkableextraordinaryout of the ordinaryout of the wayunusualexceptionalastoundingastonishingincredibleconspicuousnoteworthynotableconsiderabledistinctivearrestingOpposite ordinarynormalunremarkablerun-of-the-mill

   Word Origin late 16th century (originally Scots in the sense ‘relating to the occult, malicious’): from un-1 ‘not’ + canny.

   Derivatives

   • 1. uncanniness noun

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   • An unconscious part of our personality that we are born with. What does it mean if something is uncanny? Something is uncanny if it resembles the familiar and the unknown at the same time, where the unknown is often related to a repressed feeling, desire, thought, or memory from infancy.

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