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

• clairaudiently
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of clairaudient

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

clairaudient

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

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

From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Love of this kind is clairvoyant and clairaudient.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives

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

From Sight Unseen by Mary Roberts Rinehart

He had always been slightly clairvoyant and clairaudient.

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various

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