uncanny
/ʌnˈkæni/ noun C2- Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.
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It seems uncanny to think of a child at Green Gables somehow; there’s never been one there, for Matthew and Marilla were grown up when the new house was built--if they ever _were_ children, which is hard to believe when one looks at them.
“Yes, it’s rather an uncanny place altogether.
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