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

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

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

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

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

The Hebrew prophets were almost uniformly instructed by means of clairaudience.

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