clairaudient
Supernaturally hearing voices
Clairaudient describes the supposed ability to hear sounds or voices beyond normal perception—messages from spirits, the dead, or other supernatural sources.
A clairaudient person claims to receive information through hearing what others cannot: The clairaudient medium said she heard my grandmother's voice.
The term parallels clairvoyant, which involves seeing rather than hearing.
Unspoken mental dialogue
- spirit voicesSupernatural auditory phenomena
- whisperSpeech without full voice
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- soundwaveTraveling pressure disturbance
frequency · vibration · resonance · echo · auditory · listening · earshot · disembodied voice
Middle size or state
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- seanceRitual to contact spirits
- spiritualismCommunion with the deceased
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
ghosts · afterlife · apparition · oracle · necromancy · possession · entity · soul
Extrasensory perception ability
- telepathyDirect mental communication
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- ESPParanormal mental faculty
intuition · premonition · remote viewing · psychometry · extrasensory · aura reading · spirit guide · channeling
Beyond scientific explanation
- occultConcealed from view
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- phantasmIllusory supernatural appearance
- specterGhostly threatening presence
ghostly · haunting · poltergeist · otherworldly · mystical · metaphysical · esoteric · uncanny
inner voice
Unspoken mental dialogue
- spirit voicesSupernatural auditory phenomena
- whisperSpeech without full voice
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
soundwave · frequency · vibration · resonance · echo · auditory · listening · earshot · disembodied voice
medium
Middle size or state
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- seanceRitual to contact spirits
- spiritualismCommunion with the deceased
spirits · ghosts · afterlife · apparition · oracle · necromancy · possession · entity · soul · ectoplasm
clairvoyance
Extrasensory perception ability
- telepathyDirect mental communication
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
ESP · intuition · premonition · remote viewing · psychometry · extrasensory · aura reading · spirit guide · channeling · sensitivity
paranormal
Beyond scientific explanation
- occultConcealed from view
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- phantasmIllusory supernatural appearance
specter · ghostly · haunting · poltergeist · otherworldly · mystical · metaphysical · esoteric · uncanny · preternatural
clairaudientordinary
Standard, unremarkable
mundane · unperceptive · skeptic · materialist · obtuse