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

The phenomena of clairvoyance, clairaudience, thought-reading, were found to be real.

From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Besant, Annie Wood

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

Who had the clairvoyance or clairaudience, or the wonderful tip in the scale of health and disease, which causes such phenomena?

From The Gates Between by Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

From Four Weird Tales by Blackwood, Algernon

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