English noun: vicissitude | |||
1. | vicissitude (event) a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something | ||
Samples | The project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | fluctuation, variation | ||
2. | vicissitude (attribute) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) | ||
Broader (hypernym) | mutability, mutableness | ||