Uncanny Definition In Your Own Words

Seeming to have a supernatural character or origin.

Uncanny definition in your own words. I had this uncanny feeling that alice was warning me. Hoffmann s 1776 1822 short story the sandman 1817 and a discussion of the psychoanalytic background and general context required for an understanding of the experience of the uncanny. If you describe something as uncanny you mean that it is strange and difficult to explain proudly holding his new baby who bears an uncanny resemblance to him. Uncanny synonyms uncanny pronunciation uncanny translation english dictionary definition of uncanny.

The semantic field of the opposition of the german words heimlich and unheimlich. Because the uncanny is familiar yet strange it often creates cognitive dissonance within the experiencing subject due to the paradoxical nature of being attracted to yet repulsed by an object at the same time. An uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble. She bears an uncanny resemblance to the new president.

Difficult or impossible to explain. Suggesting superhuman or supernatural powers an uncanny sense of direction. If you describe something as uncanny you mean that it is strange and difficult to explain. Un can ni er un can ni est mysterious or impossible to explain especially when causing uneasiness or astonishment.

2 chiefly scotland. Weird strange mysterious queer old fashioned more synonyms of uncanny. Weird strange mysterious queer old fashioned more synonyms of uncanny uncannily ʌnkænɪli adverb. Adjective mysterious or impossible to explain especially when causing uneasiness or astonishment.

Definitions of the term itself. Beyond the ordinary or normal. Difficult or impossible to explain. Having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis.