Usually means: Eerie familiarity in the strange.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. uncanny: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. uncanny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. uncanny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. uncanny: Collins English Dictionary
  5. uncanny: Vocabulary.com
  6. Uncanny, uncanny: Wordnik
  7. uncanny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. uncanny: Wiktionary
  9. uncanny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. uncanny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. uncanny: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. uncanny: Dictionary.com
  13. uncanny: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. uncanny: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Uncanny (Freud), The Uncanny (film), The Uncanny, Uncanny (disambiguation), Uncanny (film), Uncanny (short story collection), Uncanny: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Uncanny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. uncanny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. uncanny: Rhymezone
  19. uncanny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. uncanny: Free Dictionary
  21. uncanny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. uncanny: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. uncanny: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. uncanny: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. uncanny: Legal dictionary

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  1. uncanny: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See uncannily as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
adjective:  (UK dialectal) Careless.
noun:  (psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.

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