vicarious
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- adjective
- /vɪˈkɛr.i.əs/
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vicario
- Reading adventure novels allows me to have vicarious experiences of excitement and danger.
- vicarious experience
- vicarious suffering
- vicarious action
I felt a kind of vicarious pride.
- I felt a kind of vicarious pride.
- What predator was allowed to abuse that child in the service of a parent's vicarious need for wealth and fame?
- That's why we see people who have a full blown trauma syndrome and it's all through vicarious trauma.
- And pain is a kind of vicarious death.
Examples
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The second pathway uses vicarious learning, in which someone else is observed responding fearfully to a situation.
Academic text (1994) -
As a fan of the sport, she enjoyed vicarious thrills through her favorite team’s victories.
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I felt a kind of vicarious pride.
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It's not enough for us to be told to accept this war we're really encouraged to gain some kind of vicarious pleasure from it.
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However, one of the positive aspects of equity theory is the way it can be used for vicarious learning.
Academic text (2011) -
One possible reason that the personal experiences were usually less cruel than the vicarious ones stems from the questions themselves.
Academic text (2000) -
But so much of our learning is vicarious and through language or other math, other abstractions.
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A chronological ordering of materials will provide students with a vicarious experience that directly mirrors your journey.
Academic text (1999) -
Young children have limited life experience of emotions, whereas picturebooks offer vicarious emotional experiences that children can partake in.
Academic text (2013) -
I had, in fact, taken a certain vicarious pleasure in his opulent and sometimes slippery escapades.
Fiction book (1991)
How Vicarious
Surface Forms
Morphology
vicarious = vicar (semi-transparent) = vicar + ious
Formed by regular suffixation from 'vicar' + '-ious', but the adjective sense 'experienced through another' relies on the less familiar 'substitute' sense of 'vicar', so the meaning is not fully obvious to learners who know 'vicar' only as a priest.
Etymology
Vicarious comes from the Latin word vicarius, which means 'in place of' or 'substitute' and is the same root as vicar and vice in vice-president. So a vicarious feeling is one you have 'in place of' someone else, by living through their actions or success.