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

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

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

He hardly knew the meaning of such words as "clairvoyance" and "clairaudience."

From Four Weird Tales by Algernon Blackwood

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

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 L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby