word of the day: uncanny

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The uncanny valley effect is a hypothesized psychological and aesthetic relation between an object's degree of resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to the object. The uncanny valley hypothesis predicts that an entity appearing almost human will elicit uncanny or eerie feelings in viewers.

"Uncanny" describes something strange, mysterious, or supernatural that feels unsettlingly familiar,