Never tested separately

Clairsentience

Clairsentience is the claimed ability of receiving information as a physical sensation rather than an image. It has never been tested as a distinct ability: Untested as a distinct ability. Every claimed demonstration is a clairvoyance trial with a different description of the experience.

The experiment

None isolating it

How it was run No protocol has ever separated it from clairvoyance: both are scored by whether the answer is right, not by how it arrived.
Sample
Result Untested as a distinct ability. Every claimed demonstration is a clairvoyance trial with a different description of the experience.

The "clair" terms multiply by sensory channel — sight, hearing, feeling, knowing — but the experiments only ever measure the answer. The distinction lives entirely in the report, not in the result.

Claim Receiving information as a physical sensation rather than an image
Word from French clair "clear" + Latin sentire "to feel"
Status Never tested separately
Searched 70/mo

Where the word comes from

A twentieth-century addition to the "clair" family, built by analogy with clairvoyance rather than from any separate tradition.

Terms in this field are younger than they sound. Most were coined between 1840 and 1930, in the Spiritualist and Theosophical revivals, and then presented as ancient. Dating them is the cheapest reality check available.