uncanny
IPA: ʌnkˈæni
noun
- (psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.
adjective
- Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
- (UK dialectal) Careless.
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Examples of "uncanny" in Sentences
- However the resemblance is uncanny.
- His ability on the field is uncanny.
- His personality is definitely uncanny.
- In fact the two share uncanny similarities.
- In fact, the two share uncanny similarities.
- He had the uncanny knack of finding lost films.
- In reality, the essay has an uncanny description.
- Note the uncanny resemblance to the Coca Cola logo.
- His aim is uncanny, at a nearly preternatural level.
- The utter uncanny diabolical schemes of that evil kabal.
- The Polar Express, even before the term uncanny valley was coined in 1970, Disney was giving us the willies with lifelike machines.
- In fact, in so far as the uncanny is also a signifier to which a real world referent can be attached we might be even more dubious.
- The thing was not quite what we call uncanny; the people were so honest, both of them, that the morbid character of like situations was wanting.
- And Roboticist Masahiro Mori used the term uncanny valley to describe the disconcerting reaction people had to robots as they became more human-like in their appearance.
- FREED: It's not clear why the mismatch happened, but in trying to explain it, the coroner pointed to what he called the uncanny resemblance between the women, including body type, hair color and facial features.
- And in so far as the uncanny is a signifier to which a real world referent can be attached -- the bestial amorality at the heart of human nature, the id unbound -- we might be equally dubious of the acts of validation carried out in the revelations of Horror.
- This interest in common things was gratifying to Aunt Charlotte, who distrusted and discouraged his dwelling on what she called the uncanny side of life; but she was anxious, at the same time, that he should not overtax his strength, and gave secret orders to Lubin to see that the young master did not allow his ardour to outrun the dictates of discretion.
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