vicarious

vi·car·i·ous  (v-kâr-s, -kr-, v-)

adj.

1. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another: read about mountain climbing and experienced vicarious thrills.

2. Endured or done by one person substituting for another: vicarious punishment.

3.

a. Acting or serving in place of someone or something else; substituted.

b. Committed or entrusted to another, as powers or authority; delegated.

4. Physiology Occurring in or performed by a part of the body not normally associated with a certain function.

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[From Latin vicrius; see vicar.]

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vi·cari·ous·ly adv.

vi·cari·ous·ness n.

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vicarious [vɪˈkɛərɪəs vaɪ-]

adj

1. obtained or undergone at second hand through sympathetic participation in another's experiences

2. suffered, undergone, or done as the substitute for another vicarious punishment

3. delegated vicarious authority

4. taking the place of another

5. (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol (of menstrual bleeding) occurring at an abnormal site See endometriosis

[from Latin vicārius substituted, from vicis interchange; see vice³, vicissitude]

vicariously  adv

vicariousness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	vicarious - experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement" secondary - being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams"
	2.	vicarious - occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; "vicarious menstruation" medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques abnormal, unnatural - not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food"
	3.	vicarious - suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; "vicarious atonement" exchangeable - suitable to be exchanged

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vicarious

adjective indirect, substitute, surrogate, by proxy, empathetic, at one remove people who use television as a vicarious form of social life

Translations

vicarious [vɪˈkɛərɪəs] ADJ (= indirect) → indirecto; [substitute] → por referencias
to get vicarious pleasure out of sth → disfrutar indirectamente de algo
I got a vicarious thrill → me emocioné mucho sin tener nada que ver con lo que pasaba

vicarious [vɪˈkɛəriəs vaɪˈkɛəriəs] adj [pleasure, experience] → par procuration

vicarious

adj

pleasure, enjoyment → indirekt, mittelbar, nachempfunden; experience → ersatzweise; vicarious sexual thrill → Ersatzbefriedigung f; he can’t walk himself but he gets enormous vicarious pleasure from watching athletics → er kann nicht gehen, aber das Zuschauen bei sportlichen Wettkämpfen vermittelt ihm einen großen Genuss; to get a vicarious thrill from or out of something → sich an etw (dat) → aufgeilen (sl); to get vicarious satisfaction (from something) → (bei etw) eine Ersatzbefriedigung empfinden

authority, suffering → stellvertretend

(form) liability, responsibility → für fremdes Verschulden

vicarious [vɪˈkɛərɪəs] adj to get vicarious pleasure out of sth → trarre piacere indirettamente da qc