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

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Etymology

Origin of clairaudience

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

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Example Sentences

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clairaudience

The manifestations in question are so many phenomena of intuition, of clairvoyance or clairaudience, of seeing at a distance and even of seeing the future.

From The Unknown Guest by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Again, by means of clairaudience, the person may hear the things of the astral world, past as well as present, and in rare cases, the future.

From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Swami Panchadasi

Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures clairaudience seems to constitute the peculiar authority of the teacher or prophet.

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

It is possible that you have now discovered in yourself certain occult talents, such as telepathy, hypnotism, mediumship, clairaudience, clairvoyance, psychometry, psychic healing, and the like.

From Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success by Frank C. (Frank Channing) Haddock

The most common form of psychic disturbance is involuntary clairaudience, and telaesthesia is not perhaps less general.

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

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