Associations to the word «Vicissitude»

Wiktionary

VICISSITUDE, noun. Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
VICISSITUDE, noun. (often in the plural) A change, especially in one's life or fortunes.

Dictionary definition

VICISSITUDE, noun. 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".
VICISSITUDE, noun. Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope