uncanny
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[edit] English
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- Rhymes: -æni
[edit] Etymology
un- and canny (in terms of being pleasant or nice).
[edit] Adjective
uncanny (comparative uncannier, superlative uncanniest)
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- strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird
- He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.
- The Uncanny is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, often being uncomfortably strange [1]. Freud describes the uncanny in his work as analogous to the German Unheimliche or unhomely. The uncanny is "something that was long familiar to the psyche and was estranged from it only through being repressed. The link with repression now illuminates Schelling's definition of the uncanny's 'something that should have remained hidden and has come into open'" [2].
[edit] Translations
strange, mysteriously unsettling
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a Freudian concept
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