adverb
- experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
Examples
- She lived vicariously through her daughter’s athletic achievements.
- Many people experience adventure vicariously by reading novels.
- He enjoyed traveling vicariously through his friends’ social media posts.
- Parents sometimes vicariously relive their youth through their children.
- The movie allowed viewers to experience danger vicariously from their seats.
- She vicariously enjoyed the party by listening to her roommate’s stories.