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

Furthermore, spiritual wonders such as clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, etc., remind us of the possibilities of further spiritual unfoldment in man which he never dreamed of.

From The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan by Nukariya, Kaiten

Again, by means of clairaudience, the person may hear the things of the astral world, past as well as present, and in rare cases, the future.

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

"Clairvoyance, of course, and perhaps clairaudience as well."

From Love Eternal by Haggard, Henry Rider