noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb
vicarious experience; reliving through imagination
Refers to deeply understanding or re-experiencing someone else's past event, emotion, or work by imagining it as if it were one's own. Often used in literary, historical, or psychological contexts.
小説を読んで、主人公の苦しみを追体験した。
By reading the novel, I vicariously experienced the protagonist's suffering.
Through historical documents, we relive the lives of people of that era.