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Princeton's WordNet

  1. deja vunoun

    the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before

Wiktionary

  1. déjà vunoun

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

  2. deja vunoun

    A feeling of having previously experienced something, especially when that is not the case.

Wikipedia

  1. Deja vu

    Déjà vu ( (listen) DAY-zhah-VOO, -⁠VEW, French: [deʒa vy] (listen); "already seen") is a French loanword for the phenomenon of feeling as though one has lived through the present situation before. It is an illusion of memory whereby — despite a strong sense of recollection — the time, place, and context of the "previous" experience are uncertain or impossible. Approximately two-thirds of surveyed populations report experiencing déjà vu at least one time in their lives. The phenomenon manifests occasionally as a symptom of pre-seizure auras, and some researchers have associated chronic/frequent "pathological" déjà vu with neurological or psychiatric illness. Experiencing déjà vu has been correlated with higher socioeconomic status, better educational attainment, and lower ages. People who travel often, frequently watch films, or frequently remember their dreams are also more likely to experience déjà vu than others.

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  1. deja vu

    Deja vu is a French term that translates to "already seen". It refers to a psychological phenomenon where a person feels a strong sense of familiarity with an event, situation, place, or person they encounter in the present, despite having no prior experience or memory of it. This typically brief and usually fleeting experience can be disorienting and is often regarded as an anomaly of memory.

Wikidata

  1. Déjà vu

    Déjà vu, from French, literally "already seen", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has been experienced in the past, whether it has actually happened or not.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Deja Vu

    A subjective feeling that an experience which is occurring for the first time has been experienced before.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of deja vu in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of deja vu in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of deja vu in a Sentence

  1. Hou Wey Fook:

    It's like a deja vu of what happened in 2008 but of course the reasons are very different. In 2008, the banks were broken, financial markets were frozen, this time, there are some areas where liquidity has dried up like in bonds but not to the same extent as in 2008.

  2. Yogi Berra:

    It's deja vu all over again

  3. Yogi Berra:

    This is like deja vu all over again.

  4. Gwen Carr:

    It's hard enough we're coming up on the anniversary of my son's death, and now to hear about this young man, it's like déjà vu, it's just like the murder of my son all over again. He was basically the same age as Eric.

  5. Ryan Newman:

    I watched the crash and had to make Ryan Newman believe what I had went through, i really looked to my dad to say,' Hey, did this really happen ?' Like it was kind of there's no déjà vu when there's no deja. It was just kind of like,' All right, I believe you.' It's crazy. I'm happy I'm here.


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