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VICISSITUDE
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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:
Hypernyms ("vicissitude" is a kind of...):
fluctuation; variation (an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change)
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