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Deja vu

2 stages from French to English.

Today it means the unsettling feeling of having already experienced the present situation
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Stage 1 of 2
deja vu
French · 1800s
"already seen"
literally already seen, coined by a French psychical researcher
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Stage 2 of 2
deja vu
English · 1900s
"the feeling of having already experienced the present situation"
adopted directly for the eerie feeling of having experienced something before
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