when co-worker overshares about all their enjoyable, fun, adventurous escapades while on vacation, while you are stuck at work, dreaming of you, yourself one day leaving the office to go on vacation.
Todd: If you could get that email out by 9 a.m., that would be great. By the way, I’m on a boat right now watching killer whales! So exciting, right?!!
Nicole: Sure, Todd. Sounds great. Sure wish I could stop vicariously vacationing through you and go to Fiji!
Nicole: Sure, Todd. Sounds great. Sure wish I could stop vicariously vacationing through you and go to Fiji!
by pr maven August 17, 2010
Get the Vicariously vacationing mug.When you didn’t go through a trauma but someone close to you did, so you are traumatized because they trauma dumped on you.
This relates to trauma being a factor of shock or unexpected outcomes, when things are not seen coming, they take more tact to adapt to.
This may or may not relate to people being in narcissistic states after going through a traumatic event initially.
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This relates to trauma being a factor of shock or unexpected outcomes, when things are not seen coming, they take more tact to adapt to.
This may or may not relate to people being in narcissistic states after going through a traumatic event initially.
See example:
Prom is a trap! I heard about Cindy getting dumped after giving up her v-card so I’ll be waiting until marriage, I’m vicariously traumatized!
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When you didn’t go through a traumatic event first hand, but someone close to you did and they trauma dumped on you, so now you’re in fear of the same thing happening to you.
This relates to how unexpected outcomes require more tact to recover from than outcomes we prepare for.
This may or may not be related to the narcissist nature the brain is left in from an initial traumatic event- sort of like a ripple impact of trauma until one transmutes the cycle
This relates to how unexpected outcomes require more tact to recover from than outcomes we prepare for.
This may or may not be related to the narcissist nature the brain is left in from an initial traumatic event- sort of like a ripple impact of trauma until one transmutes the cycle
Prom is a trap! Ever since I heard Cindy got dumped after giving up her v-card I’ll be waiting until marriage, I'm vicariously traumatized!
by sound recollection December 6, 2025
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Get the Octavia Loreno Spencer Andy Samberg Andy Sameverg Is A Mark Indelicato Who Will GEt Killed Vicariously Through Rorshachs Derived From Pornography Masters Like Octavia Loreno Spencer mug.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.
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
Get the vicarious embarrassment mug.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.
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.
2. When I went to a Tool concert they played Vicarious.
by Godsmack Kid September 4, 2008
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