clairaudience
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of clairaudience
First recorded in 1860–65; clair(voyance) + audience (in the sense “hearing”)
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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
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
The phenomena of clairvoyance, clairaudience, thought-reading, were found to be real.
From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Annie Wood Besant
He hardly knew the meaning of such words as "clairvoyance" and "clairaudience."
From Four Weird Tales by Algernon Blackwood
For a day or two I had been communicating partly with the pencil, and partly by clairaudience, eked out by writing in the air with my forefinger.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various
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