The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uncanny \Un*can"ny\, a.
Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly.
--Sir W. Scott.
-- Un*can"ni*ness, n.
--G. Eliot.
Wiktionary
n. The state or condition of being uncanny.
Usage examples of "uncanniness".
The uncanniness of what they had found back at the post—the disappearances of the men—was heavy in their thoughts.
Although one had expected it, there was a slight sense of uncanniness attending a weightless condition.
The very inhumanity of their enemies, their uncanniness and, above all, their unknown potentialities made it impossible for them to maintain the front they might have shown to normal dangers.
The villagers were conscious of an added uncanniness in his presence, and avoided him as much as they could.
I began to sense that uncanniness which Haines had mentioned, that feeling of dread which made all Daalbergen shun the place.
A bodycheck is something they can't interpret with their normal uncanniness of knowing exactly how to retaliate, with whatever exact giveandtake, the way only women can do, giving back tenfold but with a genius that makes it seem even steven.
She felt no particular attraction to the stranger, although if his presence had been uncomplicated by the eerie uncanniness of knowing that he was also her brother, she might have found him intriguing.
Many relics have curious histories, and the experienced archaeologist becomes callous to that uncanniness which seems to attach to some gruesome curios.