vicarious embarrassment

English

Noun

vicarious embarrassment (countable and uncountable, plural vicarious embarrassments)

1. The uncomfortable sympathetic feeling experienced while watching someone else embarrass themselves.

Synonyms

• empathic embarrassment
• secondhand embarrassment

Translations

embarrassment felt for someone else

• Catalan: vergonya aliena f
• Czech: pocit trapnosti za druhého, pocit trapnosti
• Dutch: plaatsvervangende schaamte f
• Finnish: myötähäpeä (fi)
• German: Fremdscham (de) f, Fremdschämen (de) n
• Icelandic: kjánahrollur
• Polish: zażenowanie (pl) n (czyimś zachowaniem)
• Portuguese: vergonha alheia (pt) f
• Russian: испанский стыд (ru) m (ispanskij styd)
• Spanish: vergüenza ajena (es) f, alipori (es) m (colloquial)
• Swedish: sekundärskam c