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
The eternal necessity of suffering and its eternal vicariousness.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
Senses, of children, 367; vicariousness of the, 193.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross
He must think and suffer for his companions; a suggestion of vicariousness lies therein, a hint of self-offering, which has not yet flowered but is certainly budding far back in old Hellas.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
