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

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 takes place in hypnotism and is supposed to take place in clairvoyance and clairaudience.

From The Spirit and the Word A Treatise on the Holy Spirit in the Light of a Rational Interpretation of the Word of Truth by Sweeney, Zachary Taylor

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

From the above, it will be seen that a mediumistic person may practice in psychometry, clairvoyance, and clairaudience, either with or without the assistance of the spirits.

From Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers by Atkinson, William Walker

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

From Love Eternal by Haggard, Henry Rider