Noun
- 1. vicissitude, variation, fluctuation
- usage: 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"
- 2. vicissitude, mutability, mutableness
- usage: mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
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