clairaudient

American  

[klair-aw-dee-uhnt] / klɛərˈɔ di ənt /

adjective

1. having or claiming to have the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.

   I wonder if you might know of a clairaudient medium who would be willing to contact their spirit friends on my behalf.

2. relating to, or heard or received by, such a power.

   It was only for this one business deal that the clairaudient voice came to me, advising me.

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noun

1. a clairaudient person.

   One clairaudient, when her mother fell ill, heard the words "Wednesday the 15th”—which turned out to be the date of her mother’s passing.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• clairaudiently
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of clairaudient

First recorded in 1850–55; clairaudi(ence) ( def. ) + -ent ( def. )

Example Sentences

Some regional favorites may sound familiar — Theresa Caputo, the Long Island medium; or Chip Coffey, the “clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient” psychic.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2019

Love of this kind is clairvoyant and clairaudient.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

By intuitions, presentiments, omens, dreams, and even by clairaudient words, she had been warned of matrimonial troubles.

From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Dr. Schlesinger calls his gift clairaudient mediumship, and says his right ear is deaf to all terrestrial sounds, but quickened, as with a sixth sense, for communications from the other world.

From Do the Dead Return? A True Story of Startling Seances in San Francisco by Anonymous

I wandered, I recall, into the realm of the clairvoyant and the clairaudient.

From Sight Unseen by Rinehart, Mary Roberts