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

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Etymology

Origin of clairaudience

First recorded in 1860–65; clair(voyance) + audience (in the sense “hearing”)

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

clairaudience

Brain-cell discharges will hardly account for the phenomena of clairaudience.

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

In the earlier chapters of the present book we have spoken of the psychic principles and laws underlying psychometry, clairvoyance, and clairaudience.

From Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers by William Walker Atkinson

But as I have already said there are degrees of clairaudience, as of any other psychic faculty.

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

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 L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby

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 William Walker Atkinson

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