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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