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déjà vu

[ dey-zhah voo, vyoo; French dey-zha vy ] 

noun

the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF DÉJÀ VU?

The late, great social philosopher Lawrence “Yogi” Berra is credited with saying “It’s déjà vu all over again,” referring to Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris constantly hitting back-to-back home runs for the Yankees in the early ’60s. This “Yogi-ism” aside, déjà vu, literally “already seen,” is the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time, a term used in psychology. The phrase is French; it was first used and perhaps coined by Emile Boirac (1851–1917), a French philosopher and parapsychologist. Déjà “already” comes from Old French des ja “from now on”; des comes from Vulgar Latin dex or de ex, a combination of Latin prepositions dē “of, from” and ex “out, out of.” Ja “now, already,” comes from the Latin adverb jam with the same meaning. Vu comes from Vulgar Latin vidūtus or vedūtus, equivalent to Latin vīsus, past participle of vidēre “to see.” Déjà vu entered English in the early 20th century.

HOW IS DÉJÀ VU USED?

Trapped in a time loop: That’s how one man felt because of his recurring episodes of deja vu.

BAHAR GHOLIPOUR, "A STRANGE CASE OF DEJA VU, AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN." WASHINGTON POST, JANUARY 5, 2015

A person experiencing déjà vu is no more likely to accurately predict what they’re going to see around the next corner than someone who is blindly guessing.

MICHELLE STARR, "SCIENTISTS HAVE RECREATED DÉJÀ VU IN THE LAB, AND IT'S LESS SPOOKY THAN YOU'D THINK," SCIENCEALERT, MARCH 6, 2018