Word for feeling extremely embarrassed for someone else [duplicate]
I am looking for a word that evokes embarrassment in oneself through others, for example, watching a really bad performance on stage, it might not necessarily involves the humiliation of one party in public, the party can also be oblivious to what he is doing, but evokes a sense of embarrassment upon observation by someone else.
Solution 1:
discomfit -
Make someone feel embarrassed
In this sense I like discomfited, though it of course it does not specifically mean for others.
Solution 2:
I have two words: empathetically embarrassed.
Sympathetically embarrassed doesn't quite express the situation precisely.
When I googled "empathetically embarrassed", it came up with Vicarious Embarrassment:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/vicarious-embarrassment-awkward-moments-trigger-pain-centers-brain/story?id=13366555
and "The Opposite Of Schadenfreude: Vicarious Embarrassment":
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/19/332760081/the-opposite-of-schadenfreude-vicarious-embarrassment