vicarious

1. To experience something through watching another's activities.

2. A great song by Tool, where in it the lead singer Maynard says that he is Vicarious because by watching people die, he himself can feel death.

1. I watched people sky-diving and felt a vicarious rush of excitment.

2. When I went to a Tool concert they played Vicarious.

by Godsmack Kid September 4, 2008

vicarious

Experienced through someone else's actions by way of imagination.

Great literature broadens our minds by giving us vicarious participation in the lives of other people.

by Larstait November 7, 2003

Vicarious

To be as in another's

She live vicarious through her daughter.

by TOKS & SADE.. November 21, 2010

vicarious

A guy who bought his arena rating in order to obtain shoulders + wepons.

Skilless rogue Vicarious, Dentarg EU, that didn't get boosted in normal way (2 guys join your arena team and boost up your rating) but he gave his acc info to another player that has skills and that's how they did it. So he fails pretty much cos rating was obtain on his character and by his gear, obviously only skills were better.

by Gordan Jandrokovic March 30, 2008

Vicarious

When Charolette attaches her self to a healthy relationship like a leech

“OMG! Charolette just confessed her love to my boyfriend, she’s so Vicarious! 🤪”

by ProfessionalHater May 19, 2024

vicarious embarrassment

The very uncomfortable sympathetic feeling experienced while you watch someone else embarrassing themselves. This feeling is often intensified when the person embarrassing themself is not aware of how embarrassing their behavior is. In this case it is more like you are feeling the embarrassment on their behalf.

George: OMG, dude...this talent show is killing me. The fat girl dancing to 'Ice, Ice, Baby'...
Dude: I know man, I know...all the wrong things are jiggling--
George: --And her dancing! Everyone is laughing and she just keeps going. It's like a trainwreck right now. I don't even want to watch!
Dude: Total vicarious embarrassment right now, man.
George: Ugh. Let me know when it's over.

by cuntwurst November 17, 2011

Vicarious Leisure

Excess consumption by an auxiliary member of the leisure class. This is referenced in Thorstein Veblen's "The Theory of The Leisure Class". His most prominent example is described as a wife of a member of the leisure class.

Through vicarious leisure, she enjoyed the fine accoutrements provided by the vast wealth of her husband.

by Bloopie Nefoomy June 20, 2011