vicarious

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Pronunciation

/vɪˈkɛəriəs/(vih-KAIR-ee-us)

Part of speech

adjectiveformal

Chinese

间接体验的；代理的（通过他人的经历感受到的）

Definition

Experienced through the actions or feelings of another person rather than directly.

Word family

  • vicariously/vɪˈkɛəriəsli/(adv)间接地

Collocations

  • vicarious pleasure
  • vicarious experience
  • live vicariously
  • vicarious thrill

Examples

  1. 1.She gets vicarious pleasure from watching her children succeed. (through others)
  2. 2.He lives vicariously through adventure novels since he can't travel himself. (indirectly)

Synonyms

  • indirect/ˌɪndəˈrɛkt/— not direct
  • secondhand/ˌsɛkəndˈhænd/— experienced through others
  • surrogate/ˈsʌrəɡət/— substitute

Etymology

from Latin "vicarius" = substitute — "vicis" = change/turn — taking someone else's turn