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vicissitude-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. variation, fluctuation-an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change.
You use vicissitudes to refer to changes, especially unpleasant ones, that happen to someone or something at different times in their life or development. FORMAL n-plural oft N of n. Whatever the vicissitudes of her past life, Jill now seems to have come through.