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If you describe something as uncanny you mean that it is strange and difficult to explain.

Uncanny definition in love. Your ability to do something is the fact that you can do it. It may refer to an everyday occurrence like a waiter who bears an uncanny resemblance to a film star. How to use uncanny in a sentence. Weird strange mysterious queer old fashioned more synonyms of uncanny.

It may describe incidents where a familiar thing or event is encountered in an unsettling eerie or taboo context. Alternatively it may have supernatural overtones especially if the uncanny situation is frightening or mysterious. I had this uncanny feeling that alice was warning me. Uncanny definition having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis.

Difficult or impossible to explain. Characterized by apparently supernatural wonder horror etc. Synonym discussion of uncanny. Uncanny ability to definition.

Beyond the ordinary or normal. For freud the uncanny locates the strangeness in the ordinary. Beyond what is normal or expected. Proudly holding his new baby who bears an uncanny resemblance to him.

Meaning pronunciation translations and examples. The uncanny is the psychological experience of something as strangely familiar rather than simply mysterious. Collins english dictionary complete and unabridged 12th edition 2014 harpercollins publishers 1991 1994 1998 2000 2003 2006 2007 2009 2011 2014. Expanding on the idea psychoanalytic th.

Ernst jentsch set out the concept of the uncanny which sigmund freud elaborated on in his 1919 essay das unheimliche which explores the eeriness of dolls and waxworks.