Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A sense of unfamiliarity with, or of never having experienced or seen before, something that should be familiar.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; associated with certain types of epilepsy
Etymologies
- A borrowing from French (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jamais vu’.
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Quashmonger's Word-O-Rama
defenestration, procrustean, schadenfreude, philtrum, earworm, mondegreen, corpulent, miasma, preantepenultimate, déjà visité, jamais vu
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English with Tongue
French words and phrases used by English speakers.
objet d'art, nom de plume, petite, bon voyage, avant-garde, faux pas, faux, touché, répondez, s'il vo..., rouge, papier mâché, joie de vivre and 85 more...
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hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
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Strange Phenomena of the Mind
Taken from here . . . http://listverse.com/science/top-10-strange-phenomena-of-the-mind/
déjà vu, déjà vécu, déjà visité, déjà senti, jamais vu, presque vu, l’esprit de l’esc..., capgras delusion, fregoli delusion, prosopagnosia
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Faves
nepenthe, cupidity, anodyne, obdurate, doleful, obsolescent, quale, piquant, velleity, inchoate, disport, facile and 366 more...
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collection
sanguine, vie, antebellum, glacial, treacly, iconoclast, lissom, anathema, serendipity, parsimonious, histrionic, contemptuous and 279 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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madamepsychosis's Words
mollify, salubrious, prandial, coup de grace, ineluctable, metempsychosis, pedant, conatus, oeuvre, laconic, solipsism, vapid and 265 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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roseandivy's list
mooncalf, wonted, gibbet, artless, noontide, blithe, glitterati, vorpal, soporific, moxie, pilfer, betwixt and between and 263 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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haunting
cathexis, cryptomnesia, metanoia, gloaming, pareidolia, l'esprit de l'esc..., discombobulate, tmesis, petrichor, estivate, chatoyant, philodoxical and 7 more...
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Adrienne's Words
ekphrasis, aubade, jamais vu, polyptoton, mise en place, inferno, deus ex machina, semaphore, malapropism, neologism, clivus, sella turcica and 17 more...
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inspired by science
noctilucent, jamais vu, l'esprit de l'esc..., tinnitus, phosphene, chirality, holographic princ..., mammatus, event horizon, analemma, singularity, tidal locking and 8 more...
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phrase off
sturm und drang, l'esprit de l'esc..., trou de loup, sotto voce, l'éminence grise, cherchez la femme, coup de grâce, drink the koolaid, folie a deux, nostalgie de la boue, sang-froid, hapax legomenon and 4 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for jamais vu.

putnum http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_1689668.htm Dec 19, 2011
reesetee See? Aug 19, 2008
vanishedone What page? Aug 19, 2008
reesetee This page doesn't exist. Aug 19, 2008
bilby I have it bad. Well, in my case it's a genuine failure to recognise things that should be familiar. Like find the exit in a shopping centre I've been to a hundred times before. Aug 19, 2008
chained_bear Or see Catch-22. :) Aug 18, 2008
oroboros Antonym of deja vu. See Wiki link.
Also Cf. agnosia. Aug 18, 2008
dontcry jamais deja vu: The denial of something actually seen before. May 12, 2008
dontcry What about j'amais room with a vu? May 11, 2008
whichbe The denial of something actually seen. May 11, 2008