Noun: vicissitude vi'si-si,t(y)ood
- 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"
- Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
"The vicissitudes of fortune had left him penniless one year and wealthy the next"
Derived forms: vicissitudes
Type of: fluctuation, mutability, mutableness, variation
Encyclopedia: Vicissitude