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vicariousness Definition


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vicarious
adj
    1. Experienced not directly but through witnessing the experience of another person.
      Example: vicarious pleasure in seeing his children learn
    2. Undergone on behalf of someone else.
    3. Standing in for another.
      Thesaurus: surrogate, standby, acting.
    4. Said of authority, etc: delegated to someone else.
Derivative: vicariously
adverb
    Derivative: vicariousness
    noun
      Etymology: 17c: from Latin vicarius substituted.



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