Definition of
Vicissitude
- (noun, attribute) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
- (noun, event) a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
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Alternate forms of Vicissitude
Hypernyms: fluctuation, mutability, mutableness, variation
Origin of the word Vicissitude
- 1560s, from M.Fr. vicissitude (14c.), from L. vicissitudinem (nom. vicissitudo) "change," from vicissim "changeably, in turn," from vicis "a turn, change" (see vicarious). Related: Vicissitudes. more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper
Words that sound like Vicissitude
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