the.com/unease
the body's smoke alarm going off before you can smell anything burning
means A vague feeling of discomfort, anxiety, or apprehension—the sense that something is wrong without being able to say exactly what.
from A transparent build: the prefix "un-" (not) bolted onto "ease," which itself came into English from Old French "aise," meaning comfort or convenience. So "unease" is literally the absence of ease—the comfort that has quietly slipped out of the room.
gut originYour gut produces most of your serotonin and senses dread
liminal triggerEmpty malls and hotels reliably manufacture it
uncanny valleyAlmost-human faces spike unease in milliseconds
evolutionary edgeVague dread kept paranoid ancestors alive longer
German precisionUnheimlich literally means un-home-like, unsettlingly familiar