Synonyms for vicissitude
Definitions
- n. 1
Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange; variability.
Related words
- Word family
- vicissitudinary vicissitudinous vicar vicarious vice
Forms
- Plural
- vicissitudes → changes, reverses, variations, mutations…
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Vicissitude is sharp, sudden, or violent change, always thought of as surprising and often as disturbing or distressing; as, the vicissitudes of politics.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- reverse You need to reverse your vest, it's back to front.
- variation This is the humorous variation of a certain proverb.
- mutation This disease is caused by a rare genetic mutation.
- alteration The sales plan allows of no alteration.
By length
- 6 letters
- change1
- 7 letters
- reverse2
- 8 letters
- mutation3
- 9 letters
- variation4
- 10 letters
- alteration4, mutability
- 11 letters
- alternation4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (reverse2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- vicissitude
- Italiano
- vicissitudine
- Español
- vicisitud