Found 2 items, similar to vicissitude.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: vicissitude vicissitude n 1: a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; “the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research” 2: mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
English → English (gcide) Definition: Vicissitude Vicissitude \Vi*cis"si*tude\, n. [L. vicissitudo, fr. vicis change, turn: cf. F. vicissitude. See Vicarious.] [1913 Webster] 1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange. [1913 Webster] God made two great lights . . . To illuminate the earth and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation. [1913 Webster] This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]