Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vicarious punishment

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English

Syllables: vi-car-i-ous pun-ish-ment
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

6

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of social learning in which a person is dissuaded from committing a certain act, as a result of seeing others punished for the same action.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

vicarious punishments (plural)

Questions

What does vicarious punishment mean?: A type of social learning in which a person is dissuaded from committing a certain act, as a result of seeing others punished for the same action.

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