déjà lun.
/deɪʒɑː ˈluː/ A feeling that one may have read the present passage before, or in a similar form elsewhere.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > sense of re-experiencing
paramnesia1888
déjà vu1903
promnesia1903
déjà lu1960
déjà entendu1965
society > communication > reading > [noun] > again > feeling one may have read the text before
déjà lu1960
re-read1973
1960 Guardian 29 Apr. 11/5 Rather a barren patch, full of the déja-lu [sic] and books that disturb the memory.
1973 Observer 19 Aug. 32/5 It is not only Mr Holroyd's own readers who may have a sense..of déjà lu.
1979 C. James Pillars of Hercules i. iii. 52 The first poem in the book..induces a fairly heavy effect of déjà lu. Aren't we long used to that massive four-stanza form, that conjectural opening?
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