[
US
/ˌvɪˈsɪsɪtud/
]
NOUN
- mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
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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
How To Use vicissitude In A Sentence
- If that isn't an antidote to the vicissitudes of life, then what is?
- Home is Burning is a deft piece of writing that captures the vicissitudes of family life whether in sickness or in health. Times, Sunday Times
- The spacewalker represents an aspirational triumph over vicissitude and poverty. Times, Sunday Times
- The origins and vicissitudes by which the field has passed have not always distinguished it from religion, alternative healing practices, superstition, and also charlatanism.
- Such poems can be new, one might say, because the vicissitudes and the strangeness of life are really inexhaustible. The Times Literary Supplement
- From 1133 the office was hereditary in the de Vere family, though with interruptions and vicissitudes, until it passed in 1626 to their cousins the Berties, as Lords Willoughby de Eresby.
- An eternal optimist, proprietor Robert Finch has an amazing story to tell of the vicissitudes of farming emus.
- Once again we see how the fortunes of modern European science intertwined with the vicissitudes of colonial expansion.
- Over the millennia, cultures have changed very substantially as they have learned to cope with environmental vicissitudes.
- Even allowing for the vicissitudes of history, the complete disappearance of an entire scheme of state furniture is puzzling.