Meaning of vicissitude in English

1. Pronunciation

   /vəˈsɪsəˌt(j)ud/

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1. Noun

   vicissitude

   Etymology

   early 17th century (in the sense ‘alternation’): from French, or from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim‘by turns’, from vic-‘turn, change’

   Definitions

   1. a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something

   Examples

   • « the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research »
2. 2. mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)