Deja Vu Definition
dāzhä vo͝o
noun
An uncanny feeling that one has been in this same place or had this same, specific experience before, although it is actually new to one.
Webster's New World
The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.
American Heritage Medicine
An impression of having seen or experienced something before.
Old-timers watched the stock-market crash with a distinct sense of déjà vu.
American Heritage
Dull familiarity; monotony.
The déjà vu of the tabloid headlines.
American Heritage
Other Word Forms of Deja Vu
Noun
Singular:
deja vu
Plural:
deja-vusOrigin of Deja Vu
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French déjà-vu déjà already (from Old French des ja from now on) (from des from) (ja now) (from Latin iam) vu seen (from Old French veu) (from Vulgar Latin vidūtus) (alteration of vīsus) (past participle of vidēre to see weid- in Indo-European roots)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Borrowing from French. From déjà, “already”, + vu, “seen”, past participle of voir, “to see”
From Wiktionary
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French. From déjà, “already", + vu, “seen", past participle of voir, “to see"
From Wiktionary
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