strange vs uncanny

strange

adj
  • Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary. 

  • Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar. 

  • Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. 

  • Not belonging to one. 

  • Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. 

  • Of an attractor: having a fractal structure. 

noun
  • Sex outside of one's current relationship. 

uncanny

adj
  • Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird. 

  • Careless. 

noun
  • Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort. 

How often have the words strange and uncanny occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )