vicissitude

1. 1.

   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”

   Broadervariation
2. 2.

   mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)

   Broadermutability

Other forms of vicissitude

plural

vicissitudes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vicissitude

What does vicissitude mean?

vicissitude means "a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vicissitude?

vicissitude has 4 syllables: vic-is-si-tude. The stress falls on "is". In IPA it is /ˌvɪˈsɪsɪtud/.

Is vicissitude a common word?

vicissitude is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.