Definitions

vicissitude

[vi-sis-i-tood, -tyood] / vɪˈsɪs ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud /

NOUN

change

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fluctuation permutation

STRONG

about-face alteration alternation diversity flip-flop innovation mutability mutation novelty progression reversal revolution shift sport switch transposition turnaround uncertainty variation variety

WEAK

mid-course correction switchover ups and downs

Antonyms

STRONG

similarity stagnation uniformity

WEAK

stability

Example Sentences

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His tone is nothing if not complicit: “I was named Olaudah, which, in our language signifies vicissitude or fortune; also one favoured, and having a loud voice and well-spoken.”

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2017

I was named Olaudah, which, in our language, signifies vicissitude or fortune also, one favoured, and having a loud voice and well spoken.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2015

It calls for poise, concentration, vitality and, above all, for a kind of instinctive communion with the camera that comes partly from inner fiber, partly from vicissitude and long practice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her parents, her brothers, her sisters, her husband, her children, were the deities of her tranquil and spiritual worship, and she turned to them in every vicissitude of feeling, for hope and strength and repose.

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

The petition, however, had scarcely been sent to its destination, when Gertrude repented of having written it; she then repented of this repentance, passing months in incessant vicissitude of feeling.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

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