vicarious embarrassment
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editvicarious embarrassment (countable and uncountable, plural vicarious embarrassments)
- The uncomfortable sympathetic feeling experienced while watching someone else embarrass themselves.
- 2014 July 17, Oliver Burkeman, “No, I won't watch that cringe-inducing viral video. I'm a better person than you”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- The same brain regions, the study found, are implicated in vicarious embarrassment – watching President Obama give an awkward hug of his own to departing press secretary Jay Carney, say – as they are when empathizing with the physical pain of others.
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editembarrassment felt for someone else
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