Vicissitudes
Etymology
Middle French, from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim in turn, from vicis change, alternation
- Date: circa 1576
Definitions
- b : natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs
- 2 a : a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition <the vicissitudes of daily life>
- b : a difficulty or hardship attendant on a way of life, a career, or a course of action and usually beyond one's control
- c : alternating change
Quote
Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power - Seneca