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dé⋅jà vu

  [dey-zhah voo, vyoo; Fr. dey-zha vy]
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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; < F: lit., already seen
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dé·jà vu   (dā'zhä vōō')   
n.  

  1. Psychology The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.

    1. An impression of having seen or experienced something before: Old-timers watched the stock-market crash with a distinct sense of déjà vu.

    2. Dull familiarity; monotony: the déjà vu of the tabloid headlines.


[French : déjà, already + vu, seen.]
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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.”

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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, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: dé·jà vu
Pronunciation: "dA-"zhä-'v(y)ü, dA-zho-v[UE]
Function: noun
: PARAMNESIA b
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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