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ʒɑ ˈvunoun
1.
Psychology. the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.
2.
disagreeable familiarity or sameness: The new television season had a sense of déjà vu about it—the same old plots and characters with new names.
Origin:
1900–05; < French: literally, already seen
1900–05; < French: literally, already seen
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Deja vu
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Example Sentences
- It's deja vu all over again in this predictable entry.
- But that also means a sense of deja vu–there's nothing in here to surprise potential buyers.
- As the film maker spoke - intense, visibly moved -there was a sense of deja vu.
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
déjà vu
1903, from Fr., "already seen." Also known as promnesia. Similar phenomena are déjà entendu "already heard" (of music, etc.), 1965; and déjà lu "already read."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Cultural Dictionary
déjà vu [(day-zhah vooh)]The strange sensation that something one is now experiencing has happened before: “I knew I had never been in the house before, but as I walked up the staircase, I got a weird sense of déjà vu.” From French, meaning “already seen.”
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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