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Definition of Uncanny
1. Adjective. Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences. "He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"
2. Adjective. Surpassing the ordinary or normal. "His uncanny sense of direction"
Definition of Uncanny
1. a. Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly.
2. a. Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly.
Definition of Uncanny
1. Adjective. strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird ¹
2. Adjective. (context: UK dialectal) Careless. ¹
3. Adjective. (psychology psychoanalysis Freud) Simultaneously familiar and foreign, often uncomfortably so; ''translation of Freud's German unheimlich ("no longer secret").'''''2011''', Espen Dahl, Hans-Gunter Heimbrock, ''In Between: The Holy Beyond Modern Dichotomies'', [ page 99], — [The uncanny is] something that was long familiar to the psyche and was estranged from it only through being repressed. The link with repression now illuminates Schelling?s definition of the uncanny as ‘something that should have remained hidden and has come into the open.’ (Freud: 2003, 147 f) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Uncanny
1. strange and inexplicable [adj -NIER, -NIEST]
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