[f. F. clair clear + AUDIENCE, after CLAIRVOYANCE.]
The faculty of mentally perceiving sounds beyond the range of hearing, alleged to be induced under certain mesmeric conditions. So Clairaudient a., having this faculty; sb. one who has this faculty.
1864. Shorter (‘Brevior’), Two Worlds, 142. We have … Trance, Visions, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, [etc.]. Ibid., 197. Joanna must also have been a spiritual clairaudient.
1866. Sat. Rev., 20 Jan., 76/2. Her friends pronounced her to be ‘a fine clairvoyant and clairaudient subject.’
