Adjective: vicarious vI'keh-ree-us
- Experienced at secondhand
"read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement"
- Suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another
"vicarious atonement"
- (medicine) occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function
"vicarious menstruation"
See also: abnormal, exchangeable, secondary, unnatural
Encyclopedia: Vicarious