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is vicarious
adjective
Experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another person, rather than through first-hand experience, such as through watching or reading.
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His life is vicarious.
Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations," and so on.
So much of the biennale experience is vicarious, virtual.
Reading about food is vicarious eating, gorging without calories.
For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious.
"Most people's experience of the Olympics is vicarious," says Ms McGonigal.
What makes America's Christian Zionists unusual is that their fascination with conquest is vicarious: it is projected onto a land thousands of miles away.
Sometimes you fall in love with a writer directly, but sometimes it is vicarious, the love always entwined with the person who planted the seed.
The potentials may serve merely as vicarious experience, but almost all experience is vicarious: that's why we have stories and movies and plays and pictures.
The only pleasure from trudging through the dirt in the hot sun is vicarious — iIt's nice to see him so happy, just so thrilled with his nature and his wildlife.
Even though several videos on gearlive.com's unboxing page are marked "unboxing review", suggesting a grown-up unboxing with sensible and practical commentary, the page tagline is: "Vicarious thrills from opening new gear".
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