Origin: Latin suffix -ude
Vicissitude has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
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"
mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.