vicissitude, n.
(vicissitudes)
(vicissitudes)
mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
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vicissitude
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hypernym
a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
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vicissitude
sample sentences
"the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research"
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