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

Etymology

Origin of clairaudient

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

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

I suppose you have heard, as a trained nurse, of what we call clairaudient hallucinations?”

From Possessed by Cleveland Moffett

He had always been slightly clairvoyant and clairaudient.

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various

It is this sensitized envelope of the planetary atom that your sensitive taps by means of his clairvoyant, psychometric and clairaudient senses.

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

Her voice came to him continually ... preluded by strains of music ... he lived from day to day with her lovely speech, a clairaudient.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp