Vicissitude
noun
A sudden or unexpected change in one's life or in a situation.
The vicissitudes of daily life had taken its toll on her.
Often appears as...
- vicissitudes of life
- vicissitudes of fortune
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Formal
noun
A difficulty or hardship that appears in life or a process.
They remained optimistic despite the many vicissitudes they encountered.
Often appears as...
- face vicissitudes
- endure vicissitudes
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
noun
A sudden or unexpected change in one's life or in a situation.
The vicissitudes of daily life had taken its toll on her.
Often appears as...
- vicissitudes of life
- vicissitudes of fortune
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A difficulty or hardship that appears in life or a process.
They remained optimistic despite the many vicissitudes they encountered.
Often appears as...
- face vicissitudes
- endure vicissitudes
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Shifts
Focus on sudden or unpredicted changes; not all changes are vicissitudes.
After winning the lottery, his life took a vicissitude that surprised everyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Tone
Although often negative, 'vicissitude' can describe neutral or positive changes.
The vicissitude of seasons brings new challenges and joys each year.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasize Impact
Use 'vicissitude' for changes that impact one's life significantly, not trivial matters.
His career's vicissitudes made him reconsider his goals.
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Shifts
Focus on sudden or unpredicted changes; not all changes are vicissitudes.
After winning the lottery, his life took a vicissitude that surprised everyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Tone
Although often negative, 'vicissitude' can describe neutral or positive changes.
The vicissitude of seasons brings new challenges and joys each year.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasize Impact
Use 'vicissitude' for changes that impact one's life significantly, not trivial matters.
His career's vicissitudes made him reconsider his goals.
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Shifts
Focus on sudden or unpredicted changes; not all changes are vicissitudes.
After winning the lottery, his life took a vicissitude that surprised everyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Tone
Although often negative, 'vicissitude' can describe neutral or positive changes.
The vicissitude of seasons brings new challenges and joys each year.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasize Impact
Use 'vicissitude' for changes that impact one's life significantly, not trivial matters.
His career's vicissitudes made him reconsider his goals.
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What gives a dollar bill...
But to keep the Fed from being influenced by the day-to-day vicissitudes of politics, it is not under the direct control of any branch of government. Why doesn't the Fed just decide to print infinite hundred dollar bills to make everyone happy and rich? Well, because then the bills wouldn't be worth anything. Think about the purpose of currency,
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Lisa Margonelli: The...
not of the vicissitudes of the world oil market. And the thing is, too, is that we also feel very helpless about the amount that we consume, which is somewhat reasonable, because in fact, we have designed this system where, if you want to get a job,
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What gives a dollar bill...
But to keep the Fed from being influenced by the day-to-day vicissitudes of politics, it is not under the direct control of any branch of government. Why doesn't the Fed just decide to print infinite hundred dollar bills to make everyone happy and rich? Well, because then the bills wouldn't be worth anything. Think about the purpose of currency,
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Lisa Margonelli: The...
not of the vicissitudes of the world oil market. And the thing is, too, is that we also feel very helpless about the amount that we consume, which is somewhat reasonable, because in fact, we have designed this system where, if you want to get a job,
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Quote examples
Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation to resolve to do so, she can preserve them only by rigid fidelity to her civil and moral duties.
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Meghan Daum
American Author
For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.
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Cesare Beccaria
Italian Judge
Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other!
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John C. Calhoun
American Statesman
The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
American Writer
I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
German Scientist
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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Max Heindel
Danish Celebrity
Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!
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Maggie Kuhn
American Activist
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Lady Colin Campbell
British Writer
My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Trey Gowdy
American Politician
There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation to resolve to do so, she can preserve them only by rigid fidelity to her civil and moral duties.
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Meghan Daum
American Author
For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.
Quote examples
Cesare Beccaria
Italian Judge
Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other!
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John C. Calhoun
American Statesman
The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
American Writer
I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
Quote examples
Georg C. Lichtenberg
German Scientist
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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Max Heindel
Danish Celebrity
Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!
Quote examples
Maggie Kuhn
American Activist
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Lady Colin Campbell
British Writer
My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Trey Gowdy
American Politician
There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.
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