English Dictionary

uncanny

IPA（発音記号）

/ʌnˈkæni/

名詞

(psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.

日本語の意味

既知でありながらどこか奇妙で不気味なもの、慣れ親しんだ印象と異質な印象が同時に存在し、不安や違和感を引き起こすもの

The uncanny of the abandoned amusement park lingered long after we left, leaving a hollow unease.

廃れた遊園地に漂っていた、馴染み深くも奇妙で不快な感覚は、私たちが去った後も長く残り、虚ろな不安を残した。

意味（1）

(psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.

This uncontrollable possibility—the possibility of a certain loss of control—can, perhaps, explain why the uncanny remains a marginal notion even within psychoanalysis itself.