uncanny

/ʌnˈkæni/

IPA: /AH0 N K AE1 N IY0/

noun

1
(Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort; translation of Freud's usage of the German "unheimlich" (literally "unsecret").

adjective

1
Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
“He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.”
2
Careless.

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