Example Sentences

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“I think vicariousness is more powerful than empathy, because ‘empathy’ implies ‘you’ being other than ‘them.’

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024

But, for the most part, a sort of clammy vicariousness reigns.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019

Plainly, then, beside his aptitude for vicariousness, our ideal teacher will need the second qualification of an already accumulated wealth.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman

But vicariousness was largely wanting as an element in, and as a cause of, their sacrifices.

From India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by Jones, John P. (John Peter)

Yet there is no pretence that he used vicariousness or satisfaction in the same sense in which his adversaries did.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell