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Vicissitude

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Noun

1. vicissitude

a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something

Example Sentences:
'the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research'

2. vicissitude

mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Vicissitude

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noun
1. 
variation or mutability in nature or life, esp successive alternation from one condition or thing to another
2. 
a variation in circumstance, fortune, character, etc

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Vicissitude

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noun
1. 
a. 
a condition of constant change or alternation, as a natural process; mutability
the vicissitude of the sea
b. 
regular succession or alternation, as of night and day
2.  [pl.]
unpredictable changes or variations that keep occurring in life, fortune, etc.; shifting circumstances; ups and downs
3. 
a difficulty that is likely to occur, esp. one that is inherent in a situation

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Vicissitude

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n.
1.
a. A change or variation: an economy vulnerable to the vicissitudes of the oil market.
b. A usually unforeseen change in circumstance or experience that affects one's life, especially in a trying way: the vicissitudes of childhood. See Synonyms at difficulty.
2. The quality of being changeable; mutability: the vicissitude of fortune.

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