Canny vs. Uncanny

Cannyadjective

Careful, prudent, cautious.

Cannyadjective

Knowing, shrewd, astute.

Cannyadjective

Frugal, thrifty.

Cannyadjective

Pleasant, fair, favorable or agreeable to deal with.

Cannyadjective

Gentle, quiet, steady.

Cannyadverb

(Northumbria) Very, considerably; quite, rather.

Cannyadverb

Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully.

Cannyadjective

Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary.

Cannyadjective

Skillful; knowing; capable.

Cannyadjective

Cautious; prudent; safe..

Cannyadjective

Having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle.

Cannyadjective

Reputed to have magical powers.

Cannyadjective

showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others;

Cannyadjective

having or showing shrewdness and good judgement, especially in money or business matters

Cannyadjective

pleasant; nice

Canny

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Uncannyadjective

Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.

Uncannyadjective

Careless.

Uncannynoun

Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort; translation of Freud's usage of the German "unheimlich" (literally "unsecret").

Uncannyadjective

Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly.

Uncannyadjective

suggesting the operation of supernatural influences;

Uncannyadjective

beyond what is natural;

Uncannyadjective

strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way

Uncanny

The uncanny is the psychological experience of something as strangely familiar, rather than simply mysterious. It may describe incidents where a familiar thing or event is encountered in an unsettling, eerie, or taboo context.Ernst Jentsch set out the concept of the uncanny later elaborated on by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay Das Unheimliche, which explores the eeriness of dolls and waxworks.