vicarious embarrassment, also called empathic embarrassment, i.e. the uncomfortable sympathetic feeling experienced while watching someone else embarrass themselves
çekim: çoğul plaatsvervangende schaamtes
köken: From plaatsvervangend (“substitute”) + schaamte (“shame”).
secondhand embarrassment, vicarious embarrassment (personal embarrassment one feels on account of and for another who is making a fool of him or herself)
çekim: çoğul myötähäpeät · tamlayan myötähäpeän
köken: myötä- (“co-, along”) + häpeä (“shame”). First attested in c. 2004.
to cringe from embarrassment, shivering from secondhand embarrassment
çekim: tamlayan kjánahrolls
köken: From kjáni (“silly person”) + hrollur (“shivering”), approximately “shivering from seeing someone make a fool of themselves”. First seen on print in 1999, becoming widespread after ca. 2010.
Ég fæ svo mikinn kjánahroll við að horfa á vini mína í karókí.