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Vicarious

Definition

(formal) Experienced or felt through the experiences or feelings of another person; not directly one's own. Often used to describe a strong emotional response to someone else's situation or a form of indirect participation.

Example Sentences

1Watching a tragic drama can evoke a vicarious sense of sorrow in the audience.
2Is it possible to feel genuine empathy through vicarious experience, or does it always remain a form of emotional tourism?
3The documentary allowed viewers to live vicariously through the experiences of the astronauts on the mission.
4Reading about someone's struggles can be a vicarious way of confronting one's own fears and anxieties.
5There is a fine line between feeling vicariously involved in a story and becoming overly invested in someone else's narrative.

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