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déjà vu
or de·ja vu
[ dey-zhah voo, vyoo; French dey-zha vy ]
noun
- Psychology. the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.
- 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.
- the sense or feeling of having previously experienced something that really has been encountered before:
It was déjà vu at the bobsled track today as the U.S. team again claimed the top podium positions.
déjà vu
/ ˈdeɪʒæ ˈvuː; deʒa vy /
noun
- the experience of perceiving a new situation as if it had occurred before. It is sometimes associated with exhaustion or certain types of mental disorder
déjà vu
- 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 History and Origins
Origin of déjà vu1
First recorded in 1900–05; from French: literally, “already seen”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of déjà vu1
from French, literally: already seen
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