Vicissitudes
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A change or variation.
- noun A usually unforeseen change in circumstance or experience that affects one's life, especially in a trying way: synonym: difficulty.
- noun The quality of being changeable; mutability.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Regular change or succession of one thing to another; alternation.
- noun A passing from one state or condition to another; irregular change; revolution; mutation: as, the vicissitudes of fortune.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
- noun Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
- noun Changing conditions of fortune in one's life; life's ups and downs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
- noun often plural a change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
- noun a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something