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- Dictionaryuncanny/ʌnˈkani/
adjective
- 1. strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way: "an uncanny feeling that she was being watched" Similar Opposite
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The uncanny is the psychological experience of an event or thing that is unsettling in a way that feels oddly familiar, rather than simply mysterious. This phenomenon is used to describe incidents where a familiar entity is encountered in a frightening, eerie, or taboo context. Wikipedia