clairsentience

Sensing through feeling

Clairsentience is the purported psychic ability to perceive information through physical or emotional sensations rather than through the standard senses.

Where clairvoyance is "clear seeing," clairsentience is "clear feeling"—sensing another person's emotions, picking up on the energy of a room, or feeling physical symptoms that mirror someone else's condition.

The term appears in paranormal and New Age contexts: Her clairsentience allowed her to feel the grief still lingering in the old house.

intuition

gut feeling

Instinctive sense about something

foreboding · inkling · knowing · flash · insight · feeling · suspicion · anticipation · presentiment · foresight

psychic

mediumship

Communicating with the dead

channeling · aura reading · spiritualism · paranormal · supernatural · metaphysical · astral · seance · oracle · divination

perception

feeling

Sensed inner state

awareness · sensitivity · receptivity · discernment · impressions · vibrations · energy · intuiting · picking up · reading

empathic

emotional sensitivity

Heightened awareness of feelings

Opposites
mode of perception

clairsentienceclairvoyance

Extrasensory perception ability

clairaudience · telepathy · precognition · remote viewing · channeling

epistemological approach

clairsentienceempiricism

Knowledge through observation

scientific observation · sensory perception · evidence-based reasoning · skepticism · materialism

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