clairaudience

[ klair-aw-dee-uh ns ]

/ klɛərˈɔ di əns /

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

Origin of clairaudience

1860–65; clair(voyance) + audience (in sense “hearing”)

clair·au·di·ent, noun, adjective clair·au·di·ent·ly, adverb

In many cases of Psychomantic Vision there is an accompaniment of Clairaudience; while in others it may be missing.

Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing |William Walker Atkinson
"Clairaudience" is a term sometimes used to indicate Astral Hearing.

Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing |William Walker Atkinson
Clairaudience denotes phenomena of the same kind in the auditory sphere.

Metapsychical Phenomena |J. Maxwell
Auditory phenomena may be divided into two categories: provoked automatisms, and spontaneous automatisms or clairaudience.

Metapsychical Phenomena |J. Maxwell

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

Second Sight |Sepharial

clairaudience

/ (ˌklɛərˈɔːdɪəns) /

psychol the postulated ability to hear sounds beyond the range of normal hearing Compare clairvoyance

clairaudient, adjective, noun

C19: from French clair clear + audience, after clairvoyance