uncanny
/ʌnˈkæni/
noun
- 1
(Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort; translation of Freud's usage of the German "unheimlich" (literally "unsecret").
adjective
- 1
Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
“He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.”
- 2
Careless.
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