[f. next.] The quality or state of being uncanny; unpleasant strangeness.
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.
1880. Contemp. Rev., Sept., 382. They gain a terrible reality from the uncanniness of their surroundings.
1893. Leland, Mem., I. 39. There was a quaint uncanniness, as of something unknown, in my nature.
