Clairsentience

Clairsentience is the claimed ability to perceive information through feeling: emotions that are not one’s own, physical sensations, the atmosphere of a place or a person’s inner state. Practitioners liken it to empathy pushed to the extreme. It is one of the so-called “clair” abilities and often serves as the basis for psychometry, the reading of an object through touch. Many highly sensitive people recognize impressions of this kind without calling themselves psychic.