DÉJÀ VU

I. noun

or déjà vue dāzhȧvu̅e̅

Etymology: French, adjective, already seen

: paramnesia b

II. noun

1. : a feeling that one has seen or heard something before

a nightmarish déjà vu hit us as we sat in on the … conference — Wall Street Journal

2. : something overly or unpleasantly familiar

the appointment seems like a case of déjà vu — E.B.Fiske

III. ˌdā(ˌ)zhäˈvü, -ˌzhȧ-, -zhə-; French dāzhȧvu̅e̅ adjective

: so familiar as to be uninteresting : commonplace

much of what was blasted as revolutionary in 1931 has long since become déjà vu — J.J.Lamberts