Definitions
suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
Word origin
From un- + canny; thus “beyond one's ken,” or outside one's familiar knowledge or perceptions. Compare Middle English unkanne (“unknown”). In the noun sense a translation of Sigmund Freud's usage of German unheimlich (Das Unheimliche, 1919).
Used in a sentence
“He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.”
“An eerie feeling came over me. She seemed uncanny and fateful.”
“These men had some uncanny knack of knowing when the steel was right, and like many such things, it just could not be put into a textbook on the subject.”
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01“Eerily strange”7 letters
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