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promnesia

noun
/pɹɑmˈniː.ʒə/US/pɹɒmˈniː.ʒə/UK

Etymology

Coined by philologist and psychical researcher Frederic W. H. Myers (1843-1901) from Ancient Greek προ- (pro-, “pre-, before”) + μνήμη (mnḗmē, “memory”) + -ία (-ía) on the model of amnesia, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, mind”). Compare Greek προμνησία (promnisía).

  1. derived from *men-✻ — “to think, mind”

Definitions

  1. Déjà vu, a sense of having experienced some event before due to an imagined memory.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA