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vicarious embarrassments

vicarious embarrassments is the plural of vicarious embarrassment.

Meaning of vicarious embarrassment

Noun

vicarious embarrassment (countable and uncountable, plural vicarious embarrassments)

  1. The uncomfortable sympathetic feeling experienced while watching someone else embarrass themselves.
    • It is noted that vicarious embarrassment does not necessarily indicate the presence of an embarrassed other.1996, Rom Harré, W. Gerrod Parrott, editors, The Emotions: Social, Cultural and Biological Dimensions, SAGE, →ISBN, page 124

Questions about vicarious embarrassments

What is vicarious embarrassments the plural of?
Vicarious embarrassments is the plural of vicarious embarrassment.

Words near vicarious embarrassments in the dictionary

  1. Vicarios
  2. vicarious
  3. vicarious atonement
  4. vicarious atonements
  5. vicarious embarrassment
  6. vicarious embarrassments
  7. vicarious learning
  8. vicarious learnings
  9. vicarious liability
  10. vicarious punishment
  11. vicarious punishments

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