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

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

She confessed only to clairvoyance, clairaudience, and weakness of her own will-powers.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

These practices tend to develop very dangerous phases of abnormal and subjective psychism, such as clairvoyance, clairaudience, mediumship and obsession.

From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry

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

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