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

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)

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 Panchadasi, Swami

The phenomena of clairvoyance, clairaudience, thought-reading, were found to be real.

From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Besant, Annie Wood

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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Had the bell actually been rung, and heard psychically, it would have been a case of astral plane hearing, known as clairaudience.

From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Panchadasi, Swami