uncanniness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The game's aesthetic, which is inspired by early PlayStation one graphics, also added to the "uncanniness" of the experience.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
Dr. Yoo argues that the uncanniness of salmon sperm is what has made the procedure so popular.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
But there's also an ideological project, however unwitting, in the uncanniness.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2025
Taken in 1937, the photograph trembles with the intimacy and uncanniness of the culminating scenes in Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona,” where the face of Bibi Andersson begins to merge with that of Liv Ullmann.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2021
Herr Dremmel, as though he were gathering himself together—gathering himself, she thought watching him and growing cold at his uncanniness, for a horrible spring—inquired of her if she had walked.
From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim
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