'Vicissitude' definitions:
Definition of 'vicissitude'
(from WordNet)
noun
A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; "the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research"
noun
Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
Definition of 'Vicissitude'
From: GCIDE
- Vicissitude \Vi*cis"si*tude\, n. [L. vicissitudo, fr. vicis change, turn: cf. F. vicissitude. See Vicarious.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange. [1913 Webster]
- God made two great lights . . . To illuminate the earth and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (pl.) Changing conditions of fortune in one's life; life's ups and downs. [PJC]
- This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vicissitude'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adverse circumstances,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- alteration,
- alternation,
- annoyance,
- asperity,
- blight,
- bummer,
- care,
- chain of circumstances,
- chain reaction,
- change,
- changeability,
- changes,
- chapter of accidents,
- chop and change,
- concatenation of events,
- contrasts,
- cross,
- curse,
- difficulties,
- difficulty,
- diversity,
- downer,
- feast and famine,
- fluctuation,
- flukiness,
- flux,
- hard knocks,
- hard life,
- hard lot,
- hardcase,
- hardness,
- hardship,
- inconstancy,
- innovation,
- ins and outs,
- irritation,
- mischance,
- misfortune,
- mutability,
- mutation,
- novelty,
- oscillation,
- pendulation,
- permutation,
- plight,
- predicament,
- pressure,
- progression,
- reversal,
- rigor,
- sea of troubles,
- seesawing,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sport,
- stress,
- stress of life,
- teeter-tottering,
- teetering,
- tottering,
- transposition,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- trouble,
- troubles,
- unpredictability,
- ups and downs,
- vacillation,
- vale of tears,
- variability,
- variation,
- variations,
- variety,
- vicious circle,
- vicissitudes,
- vicissitudes of fortune,
- wavering