vicarious
adjective
performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another.
vicariousness
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a word derived from
vicarious.
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
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 Edward Caldwell Moore
The time for using vicariousness is not the time for acquiring it.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
Professor George Herbert Palmer sets forth a great truth when he says that the first quality of a great teacher is the quality of vicariousness.
From How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods by George Herbert Betts
