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noun
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
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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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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