2007-03-08 18:27:34 · 11 answers · asked by datty_su 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of some thing."the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research" 2.Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
2007-03-08 18:58:47 · answer #1 · answered by nightingale 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Does Vicissitude Mean
2017-01-12 10:39:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello,
A really helpfull website for these kind of things is called Dictionary.com...
Here is what they have listed for vicissitude.
1.a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
2.interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
3.vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs: They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years.
4.regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
5.change; mutation; mutability.
Hope that helps you :)
2007-03-08 18:33:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Etymology: Middle French, from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim in turn, from vicis change, alternation -- more at WEEK
1 a : the quality or state of being changeable : MUTABILITY b : natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs
2 a : a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition
2007-03-08 18:43:31 · answer #4 · answered by Sumita T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
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"
2007-03-08 18:30:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
often used as 'vicissitudes of life'
means the ups and downs of life, the highs and lows basically.
2007-03-08 18:30:03 · answer #6 · answered by tanujsolanki2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
vicissitude
noun
[usually pl.] (formal) one of the many changes and problems in a situation or in your life, that you have to deal with:
the vicissitudes of family life
2007-03-08 18:35:19 · answer #7 · answered by Swaroop B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fluctuation-the unforeseen.
2007-03-08 18:29:43 · answer #8 · answered by love all 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
regular change or succession from one thing to another; or one part of cycle to the next.
2007-03-08 19:43:56 · answer #9 · answered by MimiUdang 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means regular change or alteration
2007-03-08 18:44:33 · answer #10 · answered by maggy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋