promnesia

Dec. 18th, 2013 07:15 am
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promnesia (prohm-NEE-zee-uh) - n., the feeling of having previously seen or experienced something that is encountered for the first time.


The scientific name for déjà vu -- only instead of meaning "already seen" it can be better translated as "fore-memory" or "memory before." Paramnesia is another, less common, synonym. The term is also used in parapsychology as, I gather, a sort of synonym for precognition.

---L.

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