24 Dec 08
good one!
An English Language
Learner’s Word of the Day December 23 vicarious
Function: adjective
Meaning:
: experienced or felt by watching, hearing about, or reading about someone else rather than by doing something yourself
Examples:
<a vicarious experience>
<vicarious joy/suffering>
<a vicarious thrill>
Derived forms:
vicariously adverb
Example:
<She lived vicariously through her children.>
vicariousness noun [noncount]
