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

Who had the clairvoyance or clairaudience, or the wonderful tip in the scale of health and disease, which causes such phenomena?

From The Gates Between by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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

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

This takes place in hypnotism and is supposed to take place in clairvoyance and clairaudience.

From The Spirit and the Word A Treatise on the Holy Spirit in the Light of a Rational Interpretation of the Word of Truth by Zachary Taylor Sweeney

But as I have already said there are degrees of clairaudience, as of any other psychic faculty.

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

In trance there is generally a development of other super-senses, such as clairaudience and psychic touch, as well as clairvoyance.

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

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