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presque vu
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tags: [psychology] [rare]
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Definition:the intense feeling of being on the very brink of a powerful epiphany, insight, or revelation, without actually achieving the revelation. The feeling is often therefore associated with a frustrating, tantalizing sense of incompleteness or near-completeness.text from wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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The subtle, recurring confusion between illusion and reality that was characteristic of paramnesia fascinated the chaplain, and he knew a number of things about it. He knew, for example, that it was called paramnesia, and he was interested as well in such corollary optical phenomena as jamais vu, never seen, and presque vu, almost seen.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.204 (1961)
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