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单词 uncanniness
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uncanninessn.

Brit. /ʌnˈkanɪnᵻs/, /ʌŋˈkanɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌənˈkæninᵻs/
Etymology: < uncanny adj.
The quality or state of being uncanny; unpleasant strangeness.
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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.
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