What is the meaning of vicissitude?

noun

  • A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something.
    • usage: "the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research"
  • Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another. ).
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