Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being vicarious.
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- noun the quality of being
vicarious
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Examples
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The same vicariousness occurs when perception is attributed to one sense while it properly belongs to another.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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First of all there is that so-called vicariousness of the senses which substitutes one sense for another, in representation.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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There's a ton of'em out there, "he encouragingly settled, knowing that Bradley was caught up in a kind of vicariousness of the moment, so knew also that to appease him could do no harm.
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This is the vicariousness that all Americans have become attuned to through TV and the movies.
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This is the vicariousness that all Americans have become attuned to through TV and the movies.
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Not enough horror films exploit the intense vicariousness of a fingernail falling off and then being shoved back under the skin.
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Grace Davie, the sociologist of religion, sees the key feature of English religion as vicariousness – a profound sense of belonging without believing sustained over hundreds of years by clergy "saying one for me".
The Book of Common Prayer, part 5: The importance of evensong 2010
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I think there's a vicariousness thing going on here.
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We seem to have a desire to see real people in unusual circumstances, partly as voyeur and partly to have a vicarious experience . . . that is, we live through them and their "reality" makes the vicariousness more meaningful to us as we can realize the potential for approaching them as the same as us rather than as the unapproachable stars of Hollywood's mythic proportions.
Bangbus . . .Investigative Reporters Discover Consensual and Legal. . . duh 2004
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We seem to have a desire to see real people in unusual circumstances, partly as voyeur and partly to have a vicarious experience . . . that is, we live through them and their "reality" makes the vicariousness more meaningful to us as we can realize the potential for approaching them as the same as us rather than as the unapproachable stars of Hollywood's mythic proportions.
Life of Brian: 2004
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