Phrase Hound found 11 phrases and 6 compound words that contain vicarious. The most common are listed below. Open vicarious in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 11
- vicarious embarrassmentThe uncomfortable sympathetic feeling experienced while watching someone else embarrass themselves.
- vicarious liabilityThe legal liability imputed to the superior for the acts of their subordinate, even though the superior is not personally at fault.
- vicarious atonementSynonym of substitutionary atonement: A central concept which asserts that Jesus died for humanity, and which regards Jesus as dying as a substitute for others.
- vicarious learningAn instructional approach in which the acquisition of knowledge occurs through the observation and imitation of behavior, rather than through direct personal experience.
- vicarious punishmentA type of social learning in which a person is dissuaded from committing a certain act, as a result of seeing others punished for the same action.
- vicarious punishmentsplural of vicarious punishment: A type of social learning in which a person is dissuaded from committing a certain act, as a result of seeing others punished for the same action.
- vicarious reinforcementA form of learning process that occurs when someone observes others receive positive consequences for a behavior and then imitates that behavior themselves.
- vicarious reinforcementsplural of vicarious reinforcement: A form of learning process that occurs when someone observes others receive positive consequences for a behavior and then imitates that behavior themselves.
- vicarious learningsplural of vicarious learning: An instructional approach in which the acquisition of knowledge occurs through the observation and imitation of behavior, rather than through direct personal experience.
- vicarious embarrassmentsplural of vicarious embarrassment: The uncomfortable sympathetic feeling experienced while watching someone else embarrass themselves.
- vicarious atonementsplural of vicarious atonement: A central concept which asserts that Jesus died for humanity, and which regards Jesus as dying as a substitute for others.
Compound words 6
- vicarityThe quality of understanding or experiencing something vicariously.
- nonvicariousNot vicarious.
- unvicariousNot vicarious.
- omnivicariousPermanently vicarious; shape-shifting; identity-grabbing.
- vicariousnessThe quality of being vicarious.
- vicariousnessesplural of vicariousness: The quality of being vicarious.