clairaudience

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

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  1. noun The supposed power to hear things outside the range of normal perception.

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  • Clairvoyance and clairaudience are as natural, when the spiritual faculties are sufficiently developed, as are the ordinary sight and hearing. —  The Life Radiant
  • Even when there is no clairvoyance and clairaudience, in the way of super-normal development, the mind kept in harmonious receptivity to the divine world may be telepathically in more or less constant communion with those in the unseen The power of our own will to determine certain facts is, itself, one of the facts of life," says Professor Josiah Royce. —  The Life Radiant
  • Clairvoyance and clairaudience are considered as abnormal and phenomenal gifts, and as in no way conceivable, nor even desirable, as general and usual powers for every one. —  The Life Radiant
  • The phenomena of clairvoyance, clairaudience, thought-reading, were found to be real. —  Annie Besant An Autobiography
  • These Enlightened Beings, regardless of their positions in the pantheon, were generally regarded as persons who in their past lives cultivated virtues, underwent austerities, and various sorts of penance, and at length attained to a complete Enlightenment, by virtue of which they secured not only peace and eternal bliss, but acquired divers supernatural powers, such as clairvoyance, clairaudience, all-knowledge, and what not. —  The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
 

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  1. clair(voyance) + audience.

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  1. After clairvoyance (q. v.); from French clair (from Old French cler, later English clear), clear, + audience, hearing: see clear and audience.
 

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/klɛrˈɔdɪəns/
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