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- Dictionaryvi·car·i·ous/vəˈkerēəs/
adjective
- 1. experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person: "I could glean vicarious pleasure from the struggles of my imaginary film friends"
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The meaning of VICARIOUS is experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another. How to use vicarious in a sentence.
VICARIOUS definition: 1. experienced as a result of watching, listening to, or reading about the activities of other…. Learn more.
If something is vicarious, it delivers a feeling or experience from someone else. If your child becomes a big star, you might have a vicarious experience of celebrity. Vicarious comes from the Latin word vicarius , which means "substitute."
Vicarious definition: performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another. See examples of VICARIOUS used in a sentence.
A vicarious pleasure or feeling is experienced by watching, listening to, or reading about other people doing something, rather than by doing it yourself. She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure.
Endured, suffered, or performed by one person in place of another. Vicarious punishment. Held or handled by one person as the deputy of another; delegated. Vicarious powers. Shared in or experienced by imagined participation in another's experience. A vicarious thrill.
Experienced or felt by empathy with or imaginary participation in the life of another person: read about mountain climbing and experienced vicarious thrills. 2. Endured or done by one person substituting for another: vicarious punishment. 3. Committed or entrusted to another, as powers or authority; delegated. 4.
VICARIOUS meaning: 1. experienced as a result of watching, listening to, or reading about the activities of other…. Learn more.
Definition of vicarious adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. felt or experienced by watching or reading about somebody else doing something, rather than by doing it yourself. He got a vicarious thrill out of watching his son score the winning goal.
A vicarious feeling is one you get from seeing or hearing about another person's experiences: It gives me vicarious pleasure to watch him eat . (Definition of vicarious from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
