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Near the beginning of the article it mentions the german word "unheimlichkeit" to mean creepy or uncanny. Is that not a word you are familiar with, or not the m
by WillPostForFood 10y ago
Near the beginning of the article it mentions the german word "unheimlichkeit" to mean creepy or uncanny. Is that not a word you are familiar with, or not the meaning you associate with it? There is are a lot of other German touch points in the article as well.
- sprash 10y ago"Unheimlichkeit" means more like scary. Scary is not the same as creepy obviously. Also "Unheimlichkeit" is not really a word but a "Substantiviertes Adjektiv" of "unheimlich". There you already can see that you have to bend over backwards to find something with similar meaning. And even then "Unheimlichkeit" doesn't really quiet hit it.
- detaro 10y agoCome on, "Unheimlichkeit" is obviously derived from "unheimlich", and thus the same word type as "creepyness", derived from "creepy". And "unheimlich" is in many contexts further from "scary" than from "creepy", with "scary" more describing something as outright fear-inducing than the other two.