empathic embarrassment

English

Noun

empathic embarrassment (countable and uncountable, plural empathic embarrassments)

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

Synonyms

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