uncanniness
- noun
- /ʌnˈkæn.i.nəs/
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extrañeza
- sense of uncanniness
And what we get in this is descriptions of the fear and uncanniness involved for our early on, right at the very beginning.
- And what we get in this is descriptions of the fear and uncanniness involved for our early on, right at the very beginning.
Examples
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The uncanniness of the hegemony of absence opens the door to a new mode of presence.
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Or, when you see something on Facebook, and you think about how these posts are generated and how they relate to your own personal history or your own personal identity within these social spaces, that also creates a profound sense of uncanniness.
Academic text (2017) -
And it seems that acknowledging the impressive accuracy of a phonograph's mechanized remembrance may cue not only a sense of alarming uncanniness but also, paradoxically, a sense of loss of control over memory.
Academic text (2017) -
Western women are left with the male image: the peculiar uncanniness, the scent, the irreproducible flavor (recall Portnoy's "buttermilk and Clorox") of the God of the Hebrew Bible.
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The characters populating this other branch of what might be called weird fiction, such as the narrator of Michel Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles (1998), are often not revealed to be anything other than of the human species until the end of the narrative, yet an uncanniness attends their voices throughout the text.
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Thus, the uncanny becomes a site of critical history, a divergent point in which intersubjectivity and community are pushed to the foreground, as Masschelein has it: "The experience of uncanniness teaches us that the stranger is not someone who threatens us from outside; rather, the stranger is inside us, and our identity is always already contaminated from the beginning."
Blog text (22) -
Moreover, while postmodern ecocatastrophic fiction indeed blurs the boundaries between the natural and the cultural, the effects and affects associated with such a blurring are uncanniness and stupefied terror, rather than easy elation or fascination.
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The uncanniness of the abandoned house made everyone hesitant to enter.
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She felt a sense of uncanniness when she saw her doppelganger in the crowd.
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The film was filled with moments of uncanniness that left the audience feeling uneasy.
Synonyms
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4.6
Being very strange or unusual in a way that attracts attention
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6.1
An unusual feature that makes someone or something different
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5.5
The feeling that something is unusual or hard to explain
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7.2
A strange, quiet feeling that makes you feel afraid or uneasy
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6.9
A state of being very strange or unusual that surprises people
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5.8
A state of being unusual or strange in a way that is hard to explain
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5.2
A quality of being hard to understand and making people curious
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5.3
A strange, eerie feeling that makes you feel uneasy
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6.1
A quality of being strange or unexpected, like odd weather
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7.5
A quality of being very strange or different from most people
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8.4
Being very unusual in appearance, ideas, or behavior
A strange, quiet feeling that makes you feel afraid
A state of being mysterious and hard to understand
Antonyms
How Uncanny
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Uncanniness comes from un- ('not') and canny ('careful' or 'knowing'). So uncanniness is the feeling that something is not familiar or not right, which is why it makes you feel strange and uneasy.