vicarious

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vicarious /vɪˈkɛːrɪəs, vʌɪ-/

▶adjective

• 1 experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person: vicarious pleasure.

• 2 acting or done for another.

– derivatives
vicariously adverb,
vicariousness noun.

– origin C17: from L. vicarius (see vicar) + -ous.