Unheimlich

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ÊŠnˈhaɪmlɪx/ (or as German, below)

Origin

Borrowed from .

Full definition of unheimlich

Adjective

1. Weird, uncanny. from 19th c.
• 1936, Isiah Berlin, letter, 3 Jun 1936:My point is that there is no grand single line, everything is in bits, & often absolutely dead, & always very unheimlich, almost macabre.
• 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 272:Werfner, damn him, keen-witted but unheimlich, is obsessed with railway lines
• 2009, MG Piety, translating Søren Kirkegaard, Repetition, Oxford 2009, p. 33:The music rings throughout the hall, somewhat unheimlich, given that the place is so empty.----