vicissitude
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(noun) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) |
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Related Words: mutability, mutableness |
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(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" |
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Related Words: fluctuation, variation |
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