uncanny

== English == === Etymology === 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). === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ʌnˈkæni/ Rhymes: -æni === Adjective === uncanny (comparative uncannier, superlative uncanniest) Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird. (UK dialectal) Careless. ==== Usage notes ==== Sense 1 of uncanny is no longer an antonym of canny, but sense 2 of uncanny ("careless") is an antonym of sense 1 of canny ("careful, prudent, cautious"). ==== Derived terms ==== uncanny valley uncannily uncanniness ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === uncanny (psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort. ==== Translations ==== === References ===