surrogation
The English word “surrogation” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution.
- A process by which a proxy measure for a phenomenon is mistaken for the phenomenon itself.
- A process by which a person can predict their emotional and cognitive reactions to a phenomenon by observing the reactions of others who have already experienced that phenomenon.
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