| 词汇 | uncanniness |
| 释义 | uncanniness noun[ U ] uk /ʌnˈkæn.i.nəs/ us /ʌnˈkæn.i.nəs/ the fact of being strange or mysterious, often in a way that is slightly frightening: The uncanniness of a disembodied voice being transmitted via a telephone line, as experienced by early telephone users, is quite hard to imagine now. In her novel "The Little Stranger" she achieves a slow build-up of uncanniness. Related word uncanny The point of Hopper's paintings such as Nighthawks is the uncanniness of the situations they portray. The uncanniness of the painting lies in the sense that there are two worlds, that of the seer and that of the seen. The book evokes the uncanniness of dolls who come to life. The double - a shadow, reflection, or Doppelgänger - is a typification of uncanniness. Strange, suspicious and unnatural aberrant aberrantly abnormal abnormally add freakishly freakishness funnily funnily enoughidiom ghostliness perverse perversely perversity perverted pervy wack wackadoodle wackily wackiness wacky |
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