Vicissitude
[vɪ'sɪsɪtjuːd;vaɪ-] or [vɪ'sɪsɪtud]
Definition
(noun.) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).
(noun.) 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'.
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Definition
(n.) Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
(n.) Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Alternation, interchange, regular change, mutual succession.[2]. Variation, mutation, revolution.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Change, alternation, interchange, revolution, mutation, ups_and_downs
ANT:Perpetuity, stability, changelessness, immutability, fixity
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Definition
n. change from one thing to another: change: revolution.—adjs. Vicissitū′dinary Vicissitū′dinous changeful changeable.
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Examples
- To know, to grasp a thing intellectually or theoretically, is to be out of the region of vicissitude, chance, and diversity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The vicissitudes of the human mind had not yet been exhausted by her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Why in the face of hundreds of philosophies wrecked on the rocks of the unexpected do men continue to believe that the intellect can transcend the vicissitudes of experience? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Let us not think too lightly of the humble five-cent theatre with its gaping crowd following with breathless interest the vicissitudes of the beautiful heroine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the evening I started, by that conveyance, down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Sprague, who also gives a curious glimpse of the glorious uncertainties and vicissitudes of that formative period. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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