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 and clairaudience are considered as abnormal and phenomenal gifts, and as in no way conceivable, nor even desirable, as general and usual powers for every one.

From The Life Radiant by Whiting, Lilian

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

Current theories of psycho-pathology would be hopelessly disturbed by the admission that there may be a super-sanity in which clairvoyance and clairaudience are normal and 77 healthy manifestations of life.

From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)

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 Panchadasi, Swami

We frequently hear of, and witness manifestations of, what is called "spirit psychometry," "spirit clairvoyance," and "spirit clairaudience."

From Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers by Atkinson, William Walker