Jamais vu is a psychological phenomenon characterized by the feeling of unfamiliarity with a situation or experience that one should recognize. While the term "deja vu" refers to the sensation of having already experienced something, "jamais vu" (French for "never seen") describes the opposite: a sense of strangeness or disbelief when encountering something familiar, such as a common word, place, or person that suddenly feels alien or new.
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