Vicissitude Definition & Meaning

vicissitude
noun
  1. 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"
  2. mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)

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