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Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.

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  1. n. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
  2. n. Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
  3. n. a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
  4. n. mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
  5. 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.
  6. n:100 n. a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something n. mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)