déjà vu

Meanings

Noun

• The subjective, unexpected feeling of having experienced something before, especially when that is not the case.
• Loosely or humorously, anything one has done before or is being repeated.

Verb

• To experience déjà vu; to see (something) as though having seen it before.

Related

Similar words

• promnesia

Origin

• Borrowed from French déjà vu, from déjà, + vu, past participle of voir.