déjà vu

n.

  1. Psychology. The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.
    1. An impression of having seen or experienced something before: Old-timers watched the stock-market crash with a distinct sense of déjà vu.
    2. Dull familiarity; monotony: the déjà vu of the tabloid headlines.

[French : déjà, already + vu, seen.]

Been happening almost too much lately.

+ 11.06.2010