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Uncanniness. World English Historical Dictionary

Uncanniness. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1926, rev. 2022. Uncanniness [f. next.] The quality or state of being uncanny; unpleasant strangeness.

1 1860.  Geo. Eliot, Mill on Fl., VI. iii. 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.

2 1880.  Contemp. Rev., Sept., 382. They gain a terrible reality from the uncanniness of their surroundings.

3 1893.  Leland, Mem., I. 39. There was a quaint uncanniness, as of something unknown, in my nature.

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