vicissitude
noun/vɪˈsɪsɪtjuːd/
/vɪˈsɪsɪtuːd/
[usually plural] (formal)- one of the many changes and problems in a situation or in your life, that you have to deal with
- the vicissitudes of family life
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘alternation’): from French, or from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim ‘by turns’, from vic- ‘turn, change’.
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