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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Psychology The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.
  2. n. An impression of having seen or experienced something before: Old-timers watched the stock-market crash with a distinct sense of déjà vu.
  3. n. Dull familiarity; monotony: the déjà vu of the tabloid headlines.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before, especially when that’s not the case.

Etymologies

  1. French. From déjà, “already”, + vu, “seen”, past participle of voir, “to see” (Wiktionary)
  2. French : déjà, already + vu, seen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee Haha!

    Wait...did I say that before? Dec 2, 2008

  • sarra cf. Dec 2, 2008

  • slumry That's funny, Cranewang. ;-) Jul 25, 2007

  • cranewang put some french words in your vocabulary, and your language just shine like a french fry. Jul 19, 2007

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