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‖ déjà vu Psychol.|deʒa vy, deɪʒɑːˈvuː|
[Fr., = already seen.]
a. An illusory feeling of having previously experienced a present situation; a form of paramnesia. Also attrib.
1903[see promnesia]. 1906Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. Apr. 9 A feeling that the present is a part of past experience (déjà vu). 1914tr. Freud's Psychopathol. Everday Life xii. 323 My own experience of Déjà vu I can trace in a similar manner to the emotional constellation of the moment. 1937Koestler Spanish Test. i. 21 He is unable to shake off a dream-like feeling that he has had this nightmare before, a feeling that the psychologists term déjà vu. 1949M. Dickens Flowers on Grass v. 107 The queer dreamlike warning came upon him again, that illusion of having experienced everything before. The déjà vu phenomenon, he knew it was called. 1953H. H. Price Thinking & Experience iii. 80 We have all heard of the déjà vu illusion, and most of us have experienced it at some time or other. 1958I. Murdoch Bell xxv. 297 He had again the strange sensation of déjà vu.
b. occas. The correct impression that something has been previously experienced; tedious familiarity.
1960Times 18 Feb. 15/2 Although better than her last novel, Aimez-vous Brahms..has a depressing air of déjà vu. 1962Listener 11 Jan. 82/3 Even when..some of them [sc. photogravures] are of well-known sites or monuments, the déjà vu is avoided by lighting or angle or texture. |