UNCANNY

Uncanny

The uncanny is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange or uncomfortably familiar.

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uncanny

Adjective

  1. strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird
    He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.
  2. Careless.
  3. Simultaneously familiar and foreign, often uncomfortably so; translation of Freud's German unheimlich ("no longer secret").


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