Presque vu, French for almost seen, is the intense feeling of being on the very brink of a powerful epiphany, insight, or revelation, without actually achieving it. The feeling is often accompanied by a frustrating, tantalizing sense of incompleteness or near completeness. It is closely related to the tip of the tongue phenomenon and sits alongside deja vu and jamais vu as one of a family of anomalies of familiarity and recall. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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First Described YearThe term was first used in 1876 by Émile Boirac, a French philosopher. (w-bbfill-psychology6-0926) Classification
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Presque vu (French pronunciation: [pʁɛsk vy], from French, meaning "almost seen") is the intense feeling of being on the very brink of a powerful epiphany, insight, or revelation, without actually achieving the revelation.
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The term was first used in 1876 by Émile Boirac, a French philosopher.
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