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

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clairaudience

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

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

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

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

Clairvoyance and clairaudience are as natural, when the spiritual faculties are sufficiently developed, as are the ordinary sight and hearing.

From The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

Furthermore, spiritual wonders such as clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, etc., remind us of the possibilities of further spiritual unfoldment in man which he never dreamed of.

From The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan by Kaiten Nukariya

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