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Meaning of déjà vu




furoya

déjà vu
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It's not Spanish but French, but it's used as a locution to describe the feeling of having experienced a situation before, even if we know it's impossible. Literally, deja vu means "already seen". See groundhog day, paramnesia, medical/paramnesia.

  




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

It is an expression in French, which means already seen. In many cases this galicism is used, to express in Spanish memory, nostalgia, longing. Feel or remember a past or already lived moment.

  


John Rene Plaut

DEJA VU galicism already seen, which is used to point out that you have the impression and I remember that you have already lived or seen what is happening or what is being seen at the moment. Type of paramnesia that at least 70%

  



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