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:
“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)
“Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)