单词 | uncanniness |
释义 | uncanninessn. The quality or state of being uncanny; unpleasant strangeness. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > [noun] > quality of being uncanny weirdliness1859 uncanniness1860 unearthliness1860 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss III. vi. iii. 48 Now I see how it is you..have learned so much since you left school; which always seemed to me witchcraft before—part of your general uncanniness. 1880 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 382 They gain a terrible reality from the uncanniness of their surroundings. 1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 39 There was a quaint uncanniness, as of something unknown, in my nature. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1860 |
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