clairaudient

[ klair-aw-dee-uhnt ]

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.

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 Words From

• clair·au·di·ent·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of clairaudient¹

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

Example Sentences

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

He had always been slightly clairvoyant and clairaudient.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Before the observable works were commenced, she was clairvoyant and clairaudient, and her aid in the amazing feats which transpired was solicited in advance by a nocturnal visitant needing no opened door for entrance.

From Project Gutenberg

At times, then, she was clairaudient, or was one of those sensitives whose spiritual organs of sensation are at times so disentangled from their material ones, that she experienced a practical annihilation of space and gross matter, which let her, as all unclogged spirits may, be practically present with and listeners to any person anywhere, to whom she was for any reason attracted, and with whom she came into rapport.

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