clairaudience

American  

[klair-aw-dee-uhns] / klɛərˈɔ di əns /

noun

1. the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.

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clairaudience British  

/ ˌklɛərˈɔːdɪəns /

noun

1. psychol the postulated ability to hear sounds beyond the range of normal hearing Compare clairvoyance

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Other Word Forms

• clairaudient
  noun
• clairaudient
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of clairaudience

First recorded in 1860–65; clair(voyance) + audience (in the sense “hearing”)

Example Sentences

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clairaudience

"Clairvoyance, of course, and perhaps clairaudience as well."

From Love Eternal by Henry Rider Haggard

This case bears the marks of very strong telepathy, but also has a suspicious resemblance to clairvoyance accompanied by clairaudience.

From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Swami Panchadasi

For a day or two I had been communicating partly with the pencil, and partly by clairaudience, eked out by writing in the air with my forefinger.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

Brain-cell discharges will hardly account for the phenomena of clairaudience.

From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial

From the above, it will be seen that a mediumistic person may practice in psychometry, clairvoyance, and clairaudience, either with or without the assistance of the spirits.

From Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers by William Walker Atkinson