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'''Uncanny''' may refer to:
* ''[[Uncanny (novel)|Uncanny]]'', a novel by [[Paul Jennings (Australian author)|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.
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