NOUN | event | vicissitude | a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something |
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attribute | vicissitude | mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) |
Sounds | vih.sih'sihtuwd | |
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Rhymes | accrued ... verisimilitude: 66 rhymes with uwd... |
Meaning | A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something. | |
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Example | "the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research" | |
Broader | variation, fluctuation | An instance of change |
Meaning | mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another). | |
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Broader | mutability, mutableness | The quality of being capable of mutation |
Spanish | peripecia, vicisitud | |
Catalan | daltabaix, vicissitud |
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