empathic embarrassment

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

empathic embarrassment (countable and uncountable, plural empathic embarrassments)

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

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Translations[edit]

embarrassment felt for someone else: vicarious embarrassment — see vicarious embarrassment
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