Living Vicariously
June 22, 2010 in Opinions
See definition below. Number 3 is the one I’m referring to.
I think just about everyone lives through someone or something else, except for a hermit, of course. Have you noticed that people group and usually march lock-step to the views of the group? Can’t remember the last time I read an original though.
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From Miriam’s free on-line dictionary:
Main Entry: vi·car·i·ous
Pronunciation: \vī-ˈker-ē-əs, və-\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin vicarius, from vicis change, alternation, stead — more at week
Date: 1637
1 a : serving instead of someone or something else b : that has been delegated
2 : performed or suffered by one person as a substitute for another or to the benefit or advantage of another : substitutionary
3 : experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another
4 : occurring in an unexpected or abnormal part of the body instead of the usual one
— vi·car·i·ous·ly adverb
— vi·car·i·ous·ness noun
