Difference between Uncanny and Weird

What is the difference between Uncanny and Weird?

Uncanny as an adjective is strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird while Weird as an adjective is having supernatural or preternatural power.

Uncanny

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird The Uncanny is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, often being uncomfortably strange [http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~amtower/uncanny.html]. Freud describes the uncanny in his work as analogous to the German Unheimliche or unhomely. The uncanny is "something that was long familiar to the psyche and was estranged from it only through being repressed. The link with repression now illuminates Schelling's definition of the uncanny's 'something that should have remained hidden and has come into open'" [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0142437476&id=zqafz8HKpC4C&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&ots=3pn2paWVXr&dq=freud+uncanny&sig=uGxiPlQX-o48t2nGY-NyxdDgJMU#PPA148,M1].

Weird

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having supernatural or preternatural power.Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.Deviating from the normal; bizarre.Of or pertaining to the Fates.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: fate or destinyThe Fates.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make someone feel strange.

Example sentence: Where's your will to be weird?

We hope you now know whether to use Uncanny or Weird in your sentence.

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