{s} indirect, through another; performed for or experienced by one person in place of another; substituted, delegated; happening in an unusual part of the body (Physiology)
suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; "vicarious atonement" occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; "vicarious menstruation" experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement
A vicarious pleasure or feeling is experienced by watching, listening to, or reading about other people doing something, rather than by doing it yourself. She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure + vicariously vi·cari·ous·ly a father who lived vicariously through his sons' success. experienced by watching or reading about someone else doing something, rather than by doing it yourself vicarious pleasure/satisfaction/excitement etc (vicarius , from vicis )