Clairsentience is the ability to sense information through feelings and physical sensations rather than through sight, sound, or thought. Someone who is clairsentient might sense how a room feels, pick up on someone's mood before a word is spoken, or feel a physical reaction, a chill, a tightness, a wave of calm, tied to what's being discussed.

During a reading, a clairsentient psychic often describes these feelings as part of how they're picking up on a situation, especially emotions the client hasn't voiced out loud. It's sometimes confused with being an empath, but the distinction generally comes down to this: clairsentience is receiving information through feeling, while an empath absorbs another person's emotions as their own.