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vicariously

vicariously

24 8.2
To feel something through another person instead of feeling it yourself
  • adverb
  • /vɪˈkɛrɪəsli/
translation icon : de forma indirecta
  • I can live vicariously through you guys.
  • live vicariously
  • experience vicariously
  • participate vicariously

And I'm like, I, I'm just living vicariously through you because.

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Examples

  • Many people live vicariously through celebrities, following their lives and adventures on social media.

  • How about I just live vicariously through you instead?

  • I have to live vicariously through your life.

  • A journey box allows students to experience vicariously a journey taken by their teacher.

    Academic text (1999)
  • I love that I can vicariously learn with others from around the world without leaving my room.

    Academic text (2011)
  • With the benefit of television, those personal moments can be vicariously enjoyed by large audiences.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Schools and teachers are vulnerable when teachers live vicariously through their students.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Through reading, one experiences vicariously travel, culture, recreation, pleasure, enjoyment, and appreciation.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The same mechanism allows us to engage vicariously with fictive characters' emotions.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Perhaps Peltzman lived vicariously through her children, especially in regard to her own frustrated aspirations for education.

    Academic text (1998)

How Vicarious

vicariously
24 8.2
secondhand
16 4.0
indirectly
78 4.2

Surface Forms

vicariously positive

Morphology

vicariously = vicarious (transparent) = vicar + ious + ly

Formed by adding -ly to the adjective 'vicarious' (itself vicar + -ious), so the adverbial meaning 'in a way experienced through another' is a regular and directly derivable extension.

Etymology

Vicariously comes from the Latin word vicarius, meaning 'substitute' or 'in place of', and you can see the same root in vice as in vice-president. So to feel something vicariously is to experience it 'in place of' someone else, through their actions or feelings rather than directly.