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What (who) is UNCANNINESS - definition

PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE OF SOMETHING AS STRANGELY FAMILIAR
Das Unheimliche; The Uncanny (Freud); Unheimlich; Uncanniness; Unheimlichkeit

uncanny         
If you describe something as uncanny, you mean that it is strange and difficult to explain.
The hero, Danny, bears an uncanny resemblance to Kirk Douglas...
I had this uncanny feeling that Alice was warning me.
ADJ
uncannily
They have uncannily similar voices...
ADV: usu ADV adj/adv
uncanny         
¦ adjective (uncannier, uncanniest) strange or mysterious.
Derivatives
uncannily adverb
uncanniness noun
Origin
C16 (orig. Scots in the sense 'relating to the occult, malicious'): from un-1 + canny.
uncanny         
adj.
1) positively uncanny
2) uncanny to + inf. (it was uncanny to see how closely they resemble each other)
3) uncanny that + clause (it's uncanny that we got here on the same day after traveling for three months)
4) (misc.) it's uncanny how much the twins resemble each other

Wikipedia

Uncanny

The uncanny is the psychological experience of something as not simply mysterious, but creepy in a strangely familiar way. It may describe incidents where a familiar thing or event is encountered in an unsettling, eerie, or taboo context.

Ernst Jentsch set out the concept of the uncanny later elaborated on by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay Das Unheimliche, which explores the eeriness of dolls and waxworks. For Freud, the uncanny locates the strangeness in the ordinary. Expanding on the idea, psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan wrote that the uncanny places us "in the field where we do not know how to distinguish bad and good, pleasure from displeasure", resulting in an irreducible anxiety that gestures to the Real. The concept has since been taken up by a variety of thinkers and theorists such as roboticist Masahiro Mori's uncanny valley and Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection.

Examples of use of UNCANNINESS
1. "The uncanniness of it being there on this day ... was just extraordinary," Gruzen says.