单词 | déjà vu |
释义 | déjà vun. Psychology. a. An illusory feeling of having previously experienced a present situation; a form of paramnesia. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > sense of re-experiencing paramnesia1888 déjà vu1903 promnesia1903 déjà lu1960 déjà entendu1965 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > a vision > [noun] > act of seeing > of something past déjà vu1903 1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. p. xx Promnesia, the paradoxical sensation of recollecting a scene which is only now occurring for the first time; the sense of the déjà vu. 1906 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 1 9 A feeling that the present is a part of past experience (déjà vu). 1914 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Psychopathol. Everyday Life xii. 323 My own experience of Déjà vu I can trace in a similar manner to the emotional constellation of the moment. 1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. i. 21 He is unable to shake off a dream-like feeling that he has had this nightmare before, a feeling that the psychologists term déjà vu. 1949 M. Dickens Flowers on Grass v. 107 The queer dreamlike warning came upon him again, that illusion of having experienced everything before. The déjà vu phenomenon, he knew it was called. 1953 H. H. Price Thinking & Experience iii. 80 We have all heard of the déjà vu illusion, and most of us have experienced it at some time or other. 1958 I. Murdoch Bell xxv. 297 He had again the strange sensation of déjà vu. b. occasionally The correct impression that something has been previously experienced; tedious familiarity. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > tedious familiarity déjà vu1960 1960 Times 18 Feb. 15/2 Although better than her last novel, Aimez-vous Brahms..has a depressing air of déjà vu. 1962 Listener 11 Jan. 82/3 Even when..some of them [sc. photogravures] are of well-known sites or monuments, the déjà vu is avoided by lighting or angle or texture. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1903 |
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