uncanny

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Titanic ambition, obsessive vision, furious virtuosity, Prince's gifts have seemed uncanny -- Mephistophelean, profligate.
• look: She looked quite uncanny; upright and gently rocking some 50 feet down on the firm seabed.

Infinitive complement

see: It can be quite uncanny to see a whole disk burn in a couple of minutes.

Modifies a noun

• knack: He's got an uncanny knack of making runs.
• resemblance: Its uncanny resemblance to the developments in our own world cannot be denied.
• likeness: He also bears an uncanny likeness to the great Ron Nasty of the Rutles.
• coincidence: Burling and Frost discovered in their correspondence that both shared an uncanny coincidence of events in their lives.
• similarity: Johnny's voice has an uncanny similarity to Elvis.
• ability: You have the uncanny ability to vanish whenever you want.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: The independents had an almost uncanny eye in choosing young campaign organizers.
• quite: It can be quite uncanny to see a whole disk burn in a couple of minutes.
• so: It's so uncanny how you know I'm watching.
• rather: Firstly it was rather uncanny as the engine drifted past the signalbox almost silently.
• very: To the competition a very uncanny up the flags.
• somewhat: The little house had already established a somewhat uncanny reputation.

Preposition: in

psychoanalysis: A montage film combining still and moving imagery which explores ideas of cinematic space and the uncanny in psychoanalysis.