Vicissitude

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A change or variation.
  • n. The quality of being changeable; mutability.
  • n. One of the sudden or unexpected changes or shifts often encountered in one's life, activities, or surroundings. Often used in the plural. See Synonyms at difficulty.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
  • n. a change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
  • n. Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
  • n. Changing conditions of fortune in one's life; life's ups and downs.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Regular change or succession of one thing to another; alternation.
  • n. A passing from one state or condition to another; irregular change; revolution; mutation: as, the vicissitudes of fortune.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
  • n. a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
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    alternation    interchange    revolution    mutation    change   
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