Definition of "vicariousness" []

• The quality of being vicarious (noun)

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• "First of all there is that so-called vicariousness of the senses which substitutes one sense for another, in representation."
• "The same vicariousness occurs when perception is attributed to one sense while it properly belongs to another."
• "There's a ton of'em out there, "he encouragingly settled, knowing that Bradley was caught up in a kind of vicariousness of the moment, so knew also that to appease him could do no harm."