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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.
Definition of VICISSITUDE. 1. a: the quality or state of being changeable: mutability b: natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs. 2. b: a difficulty or hardship attendant on a way of life, a career, or a course of action and usually beyond one's control c: alternating change: succession.