uncanny
The origin and history of uncanny.
Etymology
From un- + canny ("knowing, familiar") — literally "beyond what is familiar or knowable." The related noun sense translates Sigmund Freud's German term unheimlich, popularised in his 1919 essay "Das Unheimliche."
Class of 1919
uncanny first entered the language around 1919. Other words from the same year:
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