vicissitude
(noun) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
vicissitude
(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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
vicissitude (plural vicissitudes)
Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
Synonym: ups and downs (informal)
(often, in the plural) A change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
• Seneca
Source: Wiktionary
Vi*cis"si*tude, n. Etym: [L. vicissitudo, fr. vicis change, turn: cf. F. vicissitude. See Vicarious.]
1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange. God made two great lights . . . To illuminate the earth and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night. Milton.
2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation. This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 March 2025
(adjective) celebrated in fable or legend; “the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox”; “legendary exploits of Jesse James”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
