DEJA VU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deja vu mean? 

• DEJA VU (noun)
  The noun DEJA VU has 1 sense:

1. the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before

  Familiarity information: DEJA VU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEJA VU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("deja vu" is a kind of...):

reminder (an experience that causes you to remember something)

 Context examples 

Symptoms vary with different lesion locations and may include but not limited to the motor (e.g. rhythmic muscle contractions in one area of the body), somatosensory and sensory alterations manifested by abnormal numbness, paresthesias or other hallucinations, including several types of aura; autonomic and psychic symptoms, e.g. with changes in speech, thought, personality, mood, sensation of deja vu or hallucinations.

(Partial Seizure, NCI Thesaurus)