Vicarious may refer to:
- Vicarious arousal, when someone witnessing a strong display of emotion begins to feel a similar emotion themselves.
- Vicarious abuse (or proxy abuse), abuse committed on behalf of somebody else
- Vicarious Atonement, Christian doctrine.
- Vicarious baptism, baptism for the dead
- Vicarious bullying (or proxy bullying), bullying committed on behalf of somebody else
- Vicarious learning, observational learning
- Vicarious liability, a term in common law
- Vicarious liability (criminal), a term in criminal law
- Vicarious traumatization, transformation in the self of a trauma worker or helper that results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients and their reports of traumatic experiences.
- "Vicarious," a song by Cadence Weapon from the album Breaking Kayfabe
- Vicarious (Tool song), a single by the progressive rock band Tool
- Vicarious Visions, a video game
Famous quotes containing the word vicarious:
“The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday. Things must not be done in him which are venial in the week-day classes. He is paid for this business of leading a stricter life than other people. It is his raison d’être.... This is why the clergyman is so often called a “vicar”Mhe being the person whose vicarious goodness is to stand for that of those entrusted to his charge.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)