Jamais Vu (Noun)
Meaning
The experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; associated with certain types of epilepsy.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- Her jamais vu episodes made it difficult for her to recognize her family members.
- The condition caused an intense feeling of detachment, as though he was experiencing everything for the first time despite knowing it was a jamais vu episode.
- Since diagnosis, the patient experienced strange instances of jamais vu, further affecting her perception of reality.
- Her deja vu had been replaced by an unsettling feeling of jamais vu, creating an identity crisis for her.
- Doctors attributed her increasing jamais vu incidents to her recent shift in anti-seizure medications.