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VICISSITUDE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("vicissitude" is a kind of...):

mutability; mutableness (the quality of being capable of mutation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something

Example:

the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("vicissitude" is a kind of...):

fluctuation; variation (an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change)

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