uncanniness

uncanny | American Dictionary

uncanny
adjective
us/ʌnˈkæn·i/
strange or mysterious; difficult or impossible to explain:
He has an uncanny ability to pick a winner.
Barb’s uncanny resemblance to Tia is scary.

Examples of uncanny

uncanny
One can accept a certain amount of coloratura, but as soon as it becomes excessive, the device is marked and its uncanny significance emerges.
Only by listening closely do we hear the synthetic chorus as voices and, when we do, the background takes on an uncanny animation.
He strikes a chord with modern readers, who often marvel at his uncanny ability to speak directly to them.
It is the presence of the familiar within the monstrous, the misplaced quality of this floating signifier of anxiety, that makes it so uncanny.
Soaring double-bass harmonics produced an uncanny, ghostly effect.
Thus sound/voice without an entity/body (sound/voice without a home) is a primal source of the uncanny.
Offstage is, then, the locus of the uncanny.
Her uncanny knowledge about her father's death provides her with a new power and agency.
Paradoxically, the full seriousness of the story's engagement with the uncanny and the repressed is released only when it is read as parody.
The books are animated by haunting images and uncanny textual conjunctions, as if established scholarly styles are finally inadequate to the fullness of their purposes.
Their playing showed an uncanny responsiveness and unity of ensemble, and a brilliant but self-effacing virtuosity in the service of profound musicality.
For these uncanny cries raise a number of questions: why the strange persistence of ' vocal' expression in the orchestra when actual singing is attenuated?
Such dissolution of lesser coalition parties was certainly uncanny and unprecedented.
The representation of what has been entombed in the offstage as the unconscious of the stage is the presence of the uncanny theatricality.
As countless viewers and critics have observed, it is an intervention of uncanny effectiveness.
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