uncanny
Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings…Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.
» The resemblance between these two men is uncanny.
Сходство между двумя этими людьми не поддаётся объяснению. — shanghainese
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1 sensesSomething that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.
Unheimliche, Verstörende
Examples
15 sentencesThe resemblance between these two men is uncanny.
ruСходство между двумя этими людьми не поддаётся объяснению. — shanghainese
That falls into the uncanny valley for sure.
The robot was so lifelike that it was uncanny.
ruРобот был так похож на человека, что становилось не по себе. — bredsky
Chigurh has an uncanny ability to disappear without a trace.
Their propinquity was uncanny, as they'd met only three days ago.
Translations
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Origin
From un- + canny; thus “beyond one's ken,” or outside one's familiar knowledge or perceptiFrom 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).
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