vicarious pleasure/satisfaction/excitement etc• The sense in which he has created it - by writing the poem - is acknowledged to be simply vicarious pleasure.• I laugh a lot, throwing my head back with vicarious pleasure at many of these stories.• Disapproving as he was, he still seems to have found vicarious excitement in talking weapons.
Originvicarious
(1600-1700)Latinvicarius“acting in place of another”, from vicis“change, alternation, position”