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clairaudience

clairaudience

1 9.9
A claimed ability to hear voices from spirits or other unseen sources
  • noun
  • /klɛrˈɔːdiəns/
  • Jargon
: clarividencia auditiva
  • Skeptics question whether clairaudience is a real phenomenon or simply imagination.

Examples

  • The medium claimed her gift of clairaudience helped her guide her clients.

  • Some people believe that clairaudience allows them to receive messages from the spirit world.

  • Many believe in clairaudience as a form of communication with spirits.

  • Her clairaudience allows her to hear messages from the beyond.

  • Many people believe that developing clairaudience allows them to hear messages from spirits.

  • After years of practice, she claimed to have clairaudience, often receiving guidance from her spirit guides.

  • During the meditation, he experienced a moment of clairaudience and heard a voice giving him advice.

Synonyms

sixth sense
vsclairaudience
24 7.6

A natural feeling that tells you things without using sight, hearing, touch, smell, or taste

involves hearing voices or sounds beyond ordinary perception rather than intuitive knowing
ESP
vsclairaudience
16 8.8

The claimed ability to know things without using the five usual senses

concerns hearing unusual sounds or voices typically believed to come from spirits
extrasensory perception
vsclairaudience
2 8.7

A supposed ability to know things without using the normal senses

focuses specifically on hearing voices or sounds often believed to come from spirits

Surface Forms

clairaudience singular
clairaudiences plural

Morphology

clairaudience = clear + audience (semi-transparent) = clair + audience

The morphology transparently combines 'clear' + 'hearing', but the sense is specialized (paranormal) and the combining form 'clair-' is non‑productive in English, which limits direct inferability.

Etymology

The word clairaudience comes from clair ('clear') and audire ('to hear'), the same root as in audio. A helpful way to remember the second sense is that it means 'clear hearing', so some people use it for the claimed gift of hearing voices or messages from the spirit world.