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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
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: vicissitude /vɪˈsɪsɪˌtjuːd/ n - variation or mutability in nature or life, esp successive alternation from one condition or thing to another
- a variation in circumstance, fortune, character, etc
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin vicissitūdō, from vicis change, alternationviˌcissiˈtudinary, viˌcissiˈtudinous adj |