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Dec. 5, 2014
Word of the Day

clairaudience Audio Pronunciation
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\klair-AW-dee-uhns\
noun
1. the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
Quotes
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-- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, 1939
Origin
Clairaudience entered English in the 1860s and is a portmanteau of clairvoyance and audience.
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