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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024vi•cis•si•tudes /vɪˈsɪsɪˌtudz, -ˌtyudz/USA pronunciation n. [plural] - changing stages or conditions that follow one after the other, as in one's life or in situations in general;
ups and downs.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024vi•cis•si•tude (vi sis′i to̅o̅d′, -tyo̅o̅d′),USA pronunciation n. - a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
- interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
- 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. - regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
- change;
mutation; mutability.
- *vice-cessim; vice in the place of (see vice3) + cessim giving way, adverb, adverbial derivative of cēdere to go, proceed) + -i- -i- -tūdō -tude
- Latin vicissitūdō, equivalent. to viciss(im) in turn (perh. by syncope
- 1560–70
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