uncanny

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ʌnˈkæni/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.
    — This uncontrollable possibility—the possibility of a certain loss of control—can, perhaps, explain why the uncanny remains a marginal notion even within psychoanalysis itself.
形容词 adj.
  1. Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
    — He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.
  2. Careless. UK,dialectal

词形变化

uncannier comparative uncanniest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
uncanny valley uncannily uncanniness

词源

词源 1
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).
词源 2
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).
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