vicarious
adjective
[ vɪˈkɛːrɪəs ]
• experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person.
• "this catalogue brings vicarious pleasure in luxury living"
Similar:
indirect,
second-hand,
secondary,
derivative,
derived,
at one remove,
surrogate,
substitute,
substituted,
by proxy,
empathetic,
empathic,
• acting or done for another.
• "a vicarious atonement"
Origin:
mid 17th century: from Latin vicarius ‘substitute’ (see vicar) + -ous.
