clairaudience

n. in parapsychology, the alleged ability to hear voices or sounds beyond the normal range of hearing, including supposed messages from spirit guides or the dead. This may involve messages heard from or attuned to an “inner voice” or voices separate from thought. It is the auditory equivalent of clairvoyance. See also extrasensory perception. —clairaudient n., adj.

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December 18th 2024

inferior function

in the analytic psychology of Carl Jung, one of the three nondominant, unconscious functions of the personality that are dominated by the superior function in a particular functional type.