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

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

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

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

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

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 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