1a : the quality or state of being changeable : mutability. b : natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs. 2a : a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition the vicissitudes of daily life.
What is the dictionary definition of vicissitude?
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.
How do you use vicissitude?
Vicissitude in a Sentence ?
- The parental vicissitude I currently have is trying to pay child support for six children.
- My vicissitude in college was tackling seven classes and a job.
- Though he had many vicissitudes in life, nothing would stop him from becoming an entrepreneur.
