Vicissitude

Definitions: Vicissitude

Vicissitude

Noun

1. 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. Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).

Date "vicissitude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Vicissitude \Vi*cis"si*tude\, noun. [Latin expression vicissitudo, from vicis change, turn: compare to the French expression vicissitude. See Vicarious.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Vicissitude

Synonym: Variation. (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Changeableness	Noun: changeableness; Adjective: mutability, inconstancy; versatility, mobility; instability, unstable equilibrium; vacillation; (irresolution); fluctuation, vicissitude; alternation; (oscillation).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Vicissitude

English words defined with "vicissitude": To ring the changes on ♦ Variation of the needle. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Vicissitude" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (vicissitude).

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	This result has always been confidently expected, from the character of personal integrity and of benevolence which the Sovereign of the Danish dominions has through every vicissitude of fortune maintained.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Vicissitude" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vicissitude" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "vicissitude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		peripeci, ndeshtrasha. (various references)

Arabic		‏تقلب (alteration, change, fickleness, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, flux, inconsistency, inconstancy, levity, oscillate, oscillation, swing, toss, tumble, turn, variation, versatility, welter), ‏تغير (alter, alteration, change, convert, metamorphose, modify, mutate, mutation, range, set of exchange, shift, shift up, swing, turn, variation, vary), ‏إنقلاب (coup, coup d'etat, inverse, inversion, reversal, revolution, topsy-turvydom, upheaval). (various references)

Bulgarian		смяна (alternation, change, exchange, interchange, relay, rotation, shift, transfer, turn), рязка промяна (jump, revulsion), редуване (alternation, interchange, rotation, sequence, succession), превратност (mutation, perversity), перипетия (change, peripeteia, peripetia, peripety). (various references)

Chinese		变迁. (various references)

Czech		zmìna (alteration, amendment, break, change, changeover, mutation, relief, revision, shift, transformation, variance, variation), promìnlivost (changeability, fluidity, flux, mutability), nestálost (inconstancy, instability). (various references)

Farsi		فرازونشیب زندگی , تحول (Evolution, Mutation, Solstice, Upheaval), تغییر (Change, Commutation, Conversion, Mutation, Variation, Vexation), دگرگونی (Alteration, Change, Metabolism, Metamorphosis, Mutation, Shakeup, Variation). (various references)

Finnish		vaihe (instar, phase, phase conductor, stage). (various references)

French		vicissitudes (vicissitudes). (various references)

German		Wandel (change, flux, mutation, shift). (various references)

Greek		περιπέτεια (adventure). (various references)

Hebrew		ת�"פוכ�" (deceit, perverseness, perversity, upheaval). (various references)

Hungarian		viszontagság (hardship). (various references)

Italian		vicissitudine, vicenda (bill of exchange, event). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		転変 (change, mutation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		て�"ぺ�" (change, mutation, natural calamity, striking phenomena in heaven and earth). (various references)

Manx		corraghid (fickleness, tottering), carr (cab, cadence of voice; strain, car, kink, lilt, van; tune), car (during, twirl, twist). (various references)

Pig Latin		icissitudevay

Portuguese		vicissitude, revés (backset, check, checkout, disaster, mischance, mishap, pull back, repulse, reverse, setback), mudança (alteration, change, change over, clabber, conversion, displacement, doffing, move, mutation, phase, shift, switch over, transference, transformation, transition, turn, variance, variation, veering), modificação (alteration, converting, deformation, infectious, modification, modify, mute, phase, qualification, reform, reformation, remake, transformation, turn, veering). (various references)

Romanian		vicisitudine. (various references)

Russian		превратность (mutation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		promena (change, changing, declension, inflection, modification, shift, shifting, transit, transition), preokret (reversal, shift, switch, turn over, turnover, upheaval, volte-face), mena (change, cycle, phase). (various references)

Spanish		vicisitud (avatar). (various references)

Swedish		växling (alternation, change, change-over, exchange, flip-flop toggle, fluctuation, flux, reversal, rotation, shift, shifting, shunt, shunting, switching, toggle, weaving), skifte (change, distribution, parcel, shift). (various references)

Turkish		değişme (alteration, changing, chopping, interchange, shift, switch, transition, transmutation, turn), değişiklik (alteration, change, chopping, diversification, innovation, kink, modification, recast, shift, variance, variegation, variety). (various references)

Ukranian		чергування (alternate, alternation, interchange, rotation), мінливість (caprice, changeability, inconsistency, inequality, mobility, mutability, mutation, uncertainty, variability). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự tuần ho� n (round), sự thăng trầm (shift). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vicissitudinem, vicissitudinis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vicissitude": vicissitudes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vicissitude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: viccisitude, viccissitude, vicessitude, viciasitude, vicissitud, vicissitudea, vicissitudo, vicissiude, viscissitude, visissitude, vississitude. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "vicissitude" (pronounced 'Vi*cis"si*tude'): Acerbitude, Acritude, Altitude, Amaritude, Amplitude, Anxietude, Aptitude, Assuetude, Attitude, Beatitude, Certitude, Claritude, Colatitude, Consuetude, Crassitude, Crebritude, Decrepitude, Definitude, Desuetude, Disertitude, Disquiettude, Dissimilitude, Dulcitude, Egritude, 'Etude, Exacritude, Fessitude, finitude, Firmitude, fortitude, gratitude, habitude, hebetude, inaptitude, incertitude, Indefinitude, ineptitude, Inertitude, inexactitude, infinitude, ingratitude, inquietude, Insuetude, Inverisimilitude, lassitude, Lenitude, Lentitude, Limpitude, Lippitude, magnitude, Mansuetude, Mollitude, Multitude, Necessitude, Nigritude, Overmultitude, Pinguitude, Platitude, Plenitude, Promptitude, Pulchritude, Quietude, rectitude, Sanctitude, Senectitude, Serenitude, servitude, similitude, solicitude, solitude, Spissitude, Torpitude, turpitude, Unitude, Unquietude, Vastitude, Verisimilitude. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-i-s-s-t-u-v"
	-2 letters: viduities.
	-3 letters: suicides.
	-4 letters: cutises, deistic, diciest, dissect, divests, ictuses, studies, suicide, tissued, tussive, uveitic, uveitis, visited.
	-5 letters: cestus, cistus, citied, cities, civets, civies, cuisse, cussed, cuties, deists, desist, diesis, discus, disuse, divest, duties, duvets, edicts, educts, evicts, iciest, issued, scutes, suited, suites, teiids, tidies, tissue, viscid, viscus, visits.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-i-s-s-t-u-v"
	+1 letter: vicissitudes.
	+3 letters: diverticulosis.
	+4 letters: destructivities.
	+5 letters: diverticulitises.
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