Uncanny

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Uncanny may refer to:

• Uncanny, a novel by Paul Jennings.

• " The Canny and the uncanny," related to one of Freud's psychological theories (see The Uncanny (Freud)).

• "The uncanny," a mode of fantastic fiction as defined in Tzvetan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre.

• Colloquially, Uncanny X-Men. When comic book readers discuss the book, they usually only use the "Uncanny" portion to differentiate it from the other X-Men books, such as Astonishing X-Men or X-Men, vol. 2 ("Adjectiveless X-Men").

• The Uncanny Valley is a principle of robotics concerning the emotional response of humans to robots and other non-human entities.