As an adjective vicarious
is experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another, such as through watching or reading.
As a noun substitution is
substitution, replacement.
vicarious
English
Adjective
(
-)
Experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another, such as through watching or reading.
- People experience vicarious pleasures through watching television.
Done on behalf of others
- The concept of vicarious atonement, that one person can atone for the sins of another, is found in many religions.
Quotations
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* 1886 — ch 10
*: The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term. But in the hands of Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn toward the monstrous. When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
* 1900 — ch 26
*: As time went on, the cruel custom was so far mitigated that a ram was accepted as a vicarious sacrifice in room of the royal victim.
* 1920 — ch III
*: In these, however, he had not much time to indulge, for a footman, still decked in the trappings of vicarious grief, opened the door with the most startling promptitude, and he was ushered upstairs into a small but richly furnished room.
Derived terms
* vicarious atonement
* vicarious learning
* vicarious liability
* vicarious reinforcement
Related terms
* vicar
* vicariously
substitution
English
Noun
(
en noun)
the act of substituting or the state of being substituted
a substitute or replacement
(chemistry) (especially in organic chemistry) the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another
Derived terms
* substitution cipher
* substitution reaction
* substitution rule
Anagrams
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